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What is the adjective for wishing?

What's the adjective for wishing? Here's the word you're looking for.

Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs wish and wishe which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

wishful
  1. (obsolete) Wished-for; desired, wanted.
  2. Expressing a wish or longing for something.
  3. Aspiring, or seeking advancement.
  4. Synonyms:
      5. keen, yearning, longing, desirous, craving, ambitious, hopeful, hankering, aspiring, greedy, wannabe, desiring, wishing, aspirant, itchy, acquisitive, lustful, envious, longful, would-be, eager, hungry, thirsty, agog, pining, anxious, avid, impatient, enthusiastic, voracious, ardent, raring, excited, antsy, striving, aching, zealous, pumped, athirst, solicitous, hot, appetent, budding, ready, juiced, potential, intent, prospective, itching, dying … more
  5. Examples:
      6. “The idea that a walk-through might present an experience equivalent to actually being inside a building is wishful thinking indeed.”
      “I began to think that in reality these are wishful words, appearing long before anything resembling order had started to happen.”
      “My conviction is based not on wishful thinking, but on my experiences living in a totalitarian regime.”
wishless
  1. Without a wish or wishes.
wished
  1. simple past tense and past participle of wish
  2. Synonyms:
      3. desired, coveted, wanted, craved, fancied, sought, desiderated, chose, chosen, liked, lusted after, needed, willed, aspired to, begged, dreamt of, envied, hoped for, hungered for, longed for, pined after, pined for, preferred, thirsted for, wished for, yearned for, cried out for, felt like, hankered after, hankered for, hungered after, itched for, sighed for, yenned for, asked for, felt in need of, had a fancy for, had a need for, had need of, prayed for, spoiled for, spoilt for, wished to have, died for, had a yen for, had one's heart set on, looked forward to, set one's heart on, had as one's aim, had as one's goal … more
wishing
  1. present participle of wish
  2. Synonyms:
      3. caring, wanting, considering, liking, loving, fancying, craving, desiring, feeling like, choosing, needing, preferring, opting, pleasing, seeing fit, feeling, feeling disposed to, having an inclination, thinking fit, feeling inclined, coveting, seeking, desiderating, lusting after, wishing for, aspiring to, pining after, crying out for, pining for, yearning for, hungering after, having need of, feeling in need of, having as one's aim, hungering for, having as one's goal, wishing to have, looking forward to, yenning for, hankering for, setting one's heart on, spoiling for, longing for, thirsting for, hoping for, begging, sighing for, having a yen for, dreaming of, having a need for … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “There's more to life than constant wishing for the return of all the things that you've been missing.”
wished
  1. simple past tense and past participle of wish
  2. Synonyms:
      3. desired, coveted, wanted, craved, fancied, sought, desiderated, chose, chosen, liked, lusted after, needed, willed, aspired to, begged, dreamt of, envied, hoped for, hungered for, longed for, pined after, pined for, preferred, thirsted for, wished for, yearned for, cried out for, felt like, hankered after, hankered for, hungered after, itched for, sighed for, yenned for, asked for, felt in need of, had a fancy for, had a need for, had need of, prayed for, spoiled for, spoilt for, wished to have, died for, had a yen for, had one's heart set on, looked forward to, set one's heart on, had as one's aim, had as one's goal … more
wishing
  1. present participle of wish
  2. Synonyms:
      3. caring, wanting, considering, liking, loving, fancying, craving, desiring, feeling like, choosing, needing, preferring, opting, pleasing, seeing fit, feeling, feeling disposed to, having an inclination, thinking fit, feeling inclined, coveting, seeking, desiderating, lusting after, wishing for, aspiring to, pining after, crying out for, pining for, yearning for, hungering after, having need of, feeling in need of, having as one's aim, hungering for, having as one's goal, wishing to have, looking forward to, yenning for, hankering for, setting one's heart on, spoiling for, longing for, thirsting for, hoping for, begging, sighing for, having a yen for, dreaming of, having a need for … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “There's more to life than constant wishing for the return of all the things that you've been missing.”
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