Words and phrases that have a meaning related to wishing: (151 results)
Often used in the same context:
desiring, wanting, encouraged, intending, tempted, invited, hoping, urge, needing, waiting, implore, must, please, entreat, welcome, yearn, clamoring, longed, prefer, looking, obliged, beseech, seeking, calling, should, requesting, inclined, advised, pining, asking, exhorting, flocking, queuing, attempting, itching, choose, refuse, envying, disinclined, striving, compelled, opting, permitted, hankering, bidden, register, beg, expecting, required, enjoy, rejoice, godspeed, beckoning, trying, pleading, persuaded, contemplating, aspire, congratulating, commiserate, could, would, fearing, contacting, wondering, interested, believing, praying, hurrying, preparing, endeavoring, petitioning, pretending, having, loth, availing, free gift, pledging, ought, hesitate, supplicate, anticipating, decided, entice, allowed, dared, loathe, dreading, thanking, importune, instructed, blessed, helping, wanna, greeting, dreaming, letting, bemoan, advertize, reserving, cherish, deigned, believe, residing, hostile, speak, think, wish, nothing, serving, anything, com, comprise, docs, reside, tell, while, contrary, operate, put, iron, weatherbeaten, battered, bedecked, bewitched, big, boarding, brass, cornelian, corner, cornered, decked, expandable, flattopped, goodsized, ivied, largish, oversized, proverbial, round
More specific:
velleity
Appears in the definition of:
anticipation, expectation, malevolence, malevolent, malicious, malignity, repining, well-wishing
More general:
desire
Synonyms:
Also try:want
— Adjectives for wishing: well, individual, mere, ill, firm, worth, long, good, much, half, latter, more...
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