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Definition of wishful in English: wishfuladjective ˈwɪʃfʊlˈwɪʃf(ə)lˈwɪʃfəl 1Having or expressing a desire or hope for something to happen. 渴望的；向往的；希望的 I had heard the same wishful tone over the phone Example sentencesExamples - Others drew somewhat wishful links between the anti-war movement and the inquiry.
- He does not understand her, but is moved to see her so earnest and wishful.
- I said in a wishful small voice hoping she'll forgive me and save me the humiliation by just pointing to my desk.
- Not out there in some wishful scenario of the future, but in a date nailed down in time.
- He pulled away a little and looked her in the eye and repeated his wishful words as clearly as he could.
- She starts responding to his wishful blabberings about the future.
- It's a simple refusal to acknowledge reality, a wishful desire to escape the order of things.
- Jack made all sorts of wonderful plans for their lives together, some more wishful than realistic.
- I began to think that in reality these are wishful words, appearing long before anything resembling order had started to happen.
- Rowan, who had heard such wishful schemes before, tried not to get his hopes up.
Synonyms yearning, desirous, pining, craving, hungry, thirsty, hankering, avid, covetous - 1.1 Based on impractical wishes rather than facts.
without resources the proposed measures were merely wishful thinking 若没有资源，提出的解决措施就只能是痴心妄想。 Example sentencesExamples - My conviction is based not on wishful thinking, but on my experiences living in a totalitarian regime.
- The ties of community are fragile; they are hard to weave but easy to break; they can't be drawn together by wishful thinking.
- The link he assumes between local control and sustainable development is based on wishful thinking.
- It seems to be based on wishful thinking rather than scientific evidence.
- I suspect his assertion, memorable though it is, was based on wishful thinking.
Derivativesadverb ˈwɪʃfʊliˈwɪʃf(ə)liˈwɪʃfəli They may be excusable, but they are out of touch or misled or thinking wishfully. Example sentencesExamples - Josie agreed, gazing wishfully at them with her head cocked to the side.
- ‘Oh, coffee,’ she said wishfully, ‘I'd love a cup of coffee right now.’
- ‘Surely supper will be ready soon,’ he muttered wishfully.
- However much he may wishfully assert that stoic silence is a noble virtue, his distress in the first instance is caused by enforced silence and its accompanying feeling of personal oblivion.
nounˈwɪʃfʊlnəsˈwɪʃf(ə)lnəsˈwɪʃfəlnəs But such wishfulness seems to pay off at the box office and in the ratings. Example sentencesExamples - He couldn't read it very well: it seemed to be a mixture of both understanding and wishfulness.
- There's a sort of wistful wishfulness even to the union leaders arguing in favour of it.
- Now, I wonder if this is plain wishfulness or actually a faulty media plan (one that a good media planner buying time for a package-goods client wouldn't make).
- I suspect that the tag is ascribable to wishfulness on the part of the many journalists who live there.
Definition of wishful in US English: wishfuladjectiveˈwɪʃfəlˈwiSHfəl 1Having or expressing a desire or hope for something to happen. 渴望的；向往的；希望的 Example sentencesExamples - He does not understand her, but is moved to see her so earnest and wishful.
- He pulled away a little and looked her in the eye and repeated his wishful words as clearly as he could.
- It's a simple refusal to acknowledge reality, a wishful desire to escape the order of things.
- She starts responding to his wishful blabberings about the future.
- Rowan, who had heard such wishful schemes before, tried not to get his hopes up.
- Others drew somewhat wishful links between the anti-war movement and the inquiry.
- Not out there in some wishful scenario of the future, but in a date nailed down in time.
- I began to think that in reality these are wishful words, appearing long before anything resembling order had started to happen.
- Jack made all sorts of wonderful plans for their lives together, some more wishful than realistic.
- I said in a wishful small voice hoping she'll forgive me and save me the humiliation by just pointing to my desk.
Synonyms yearning, desirous, pining, craving, hungry, thirsty, hankering, avid, covetous - 1.1 Expressing or containing a desire or hope for something impractical or unfeasible.
一厢情愿的 without resources the proposed measures were merely wishful thinking 若没有资源，提出的解决措施就只能是痴心妄想。 Example sentencesExamples - It seems to be based on wishful thinking rather than scientific evidence.
- The link he assumes between local control and sustainable development is based on wishful thinking.
- The ties of community are fragile; they are hard to weave but easy to break; they can't be drawn together by wishful thinking.
- My conviction is based not on wishful thinking, but on my experiences living in a totalitarian regime.
- I suspect his assertion, memorable though it is, was based on wishful thinking.
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