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PRONUNCIATION OF WISHFULLY

wishfully  [ˈwɪʃfʊlɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF WISHFULLY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Wishfully is an adverb.
The adverb is an invariable part of the sentence that can change, explain or simplify a verb or another adverb.

WHAT DOES WISHFULLY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of wishfully in the English dictionary

The definition of wishfully in the dictionary is in a manner characterized by wishing.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH WISHFULLY


bashfully
ˈbæʃfʊlɪ
carefully
ˈkeəfʊlɪ
faithfully
ˈfeɪθfʊlɪ
fully
ˈfʊlɪ
gracefully
ˈɡreɪsfʊlɪ
gratefully
ˈɡreɪtfʊlɪ
hopefully
ˈhəʊpfʊlɪ
painfully
ˈpeɪnfʊlɪ
peacefully
ˈpiːsfʊlɪ
pushfully
ˈpʊʃfʊlɪ
refreshfully
rɪˈfreʃfʊlɪ
reproachfully
rɪˈprəʊtʃfʊlɪ
respectfully
rɪˈspɛktfʊlɪ
self-reproachfully
ˌselfrɪˈprəʊtʃfʊlɪ
successfully
səkˈsɛsfʊlɪ
tastefully
ˈteɪstfʊlɪ
thankfully
ˈθæŋkfʊlɪ
unwatchfully
ʌnˈwɒtʃfʊlɪ
watchfully
ˈwɒtʃfʊlɪ
wonderfully
ˈwʌndəfʊlɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE WISHFULLY

wish fulfilment
wish list
wish on
wish-wash
wisha
wishbone
wishbone boom
wisher
wishes
wishful
wishful thinker
wishful thinking
wishfulness
wishing well
wishless
wisht
wishtonwish
wishy-washily
wishy-washiness
wishy-washy

WORDS THAT END LIKE WISHFULLY

awfully
beautifully
blissfully
bully
cheerfully
forcefully
lawfully
meaningfully
playfully
powerfully
purposefully
rightfully
skillfully
thoughtfully
truthfully
unlawfully
unmercifully
unsuccessfully
usefully
woefully
wrongfully

Synonyms and antonyms of wishfully in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «wishfully» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF WISHFULLY

Find out the translation of wishfully to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of wishfully from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «wishfully» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

一厢情愿
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

wishfully
570 millions of speakers

English

wishfully
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

बताकर
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

متمنين
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

мечтательно
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

ilusoriamente
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

wishfully
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

wishfully
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Berhasrat
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Wunschdenken
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

wishfully
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

wishfully
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Wishfully
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

wishfully
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

wishfully
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

इच्छाशक्तीने
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

wishfully
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

wishfully
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

życzeniowo
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

мрійливо
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

amăgire
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

wishfully
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

wishfully
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

wishfully
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

wishfully
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of wishfully

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «WISHFULLY»

The term «wishfully» is normally little used and occupies the 113.424 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «WISHFULLY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «wishfully» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «wishfully» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about wishfully

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WISHFULLY»

Discover the use of wishfully in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to wishfully and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Oblivious to the Obvious: Wishfully Mindful Parenting
Faster than a flying meatball let loose by an insolent hedgehog and more water soluble than a magic marker in a load of delicates, "Oblivious to the Obvious" breaks through the barriers of dime-store strictures and invites all grownups to ...
Kj Hannah Greenberg, 2010
2
The Edinburgh Encyclopedia of Continental Philosophy
Data from the dream Freud wants not to be responsible for Freud wishfully represents Irma's suffering as not his fault, but her own. Freud says to Irma 'If you still get pains, its really only your fault'. Irma's suffering. Freud wants not to be ...
Simon Glendinning, 1999
3
Sigmund Freud's the Interpretation of Dreams: New ...
Freud wishfully represents Irma's suffering as not his fault, but her own. Freud wishfully represents Irma as suffering from something for which he is not responsible. Freud wishfully represents the situation as the reverse of that implied by Otto, ...
Laura Marcus, 1999
4
Seemings and Justification: New Essays on Dogmatism and ...
I argue that a wishfully produced seeming can provide prima facie justification even though it can't provide warrant for its content, where warrant is the property that makes true belief knowledge. This result would be parallel to a common view  ...
Chris Tucker, 2013
5
Evidence and Religious Belief
Markie considers it absurd to say that this wishfully-produced seeming provides Willy with primafacie propositional justification for HEAVEN. The putative problem for phenomenal conservatism is not that it licenses every form of wishful thinking  ...
Kelly James Clark, Raymond J. VanArragon, 2011
6
Seeing Through Self-Deception
If wishful thinking requires, as Johnston suggested, not merely desire but anxious desire, then it might be plausible to think that the process of wishfully believing that p would satisfy the four conditions.” However, the satisfaction of these four ...
Annette Barnes, 2007
7
The Poetic Spectrum: Book of Poetry
Wishfully. Our parkover looking the sea, Reminiscence when it was just us three. Sweet laughter, sublime wonder, For a moment, Hands held tight. Vanished movies end. ”Boasts of she's so pretty,” Theatrical mimic gambled, You performed , ...
Amanda Ulrich, 2008
8
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: The Century ...
And all did wishfully expect the silver-throned morn. Chapman, Iliad, vlll. 497. He looked up wishfully In my uncle Toby's face, then cast a look upon his boy — and that ligament fine as it was, was never broken. Sterne, Tristram Shandy, vi. 10.
William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, 1914
9
The Century dictionary and cyclopedia: a work of universal ...
With desire; longingly ; wistfully. And all did wishfully expect the Bilver-throned mom. Chapman, Iliad, viii. 497. He looked up wishfully in my uncle Toby's face, then cast a look upon his boy — and that ligament, fine as it was, was never broken.
William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, 1897
10
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: Dictionary
With desire; longingly; wistfully. And all did wishfully expect the silver-throned mom. Chapman, Iliad, viii. 497. He looked up wishfully in my uncle Toby's face, then cast a look upon his boy — and that ligament, fine as it was, was never broken.
‎1911

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «WISHFULLY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term wishfully is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Oil stocks rally after inventory data
... it will be a process that will take a year or more, with no agreement on where we will be by then, though many talk wishfully about oil between $75 and $90. «CNBC, Jul 15»
2
Today on Context Florida: Marco Rubio a Bush-spoiler, obnoxious …
That says as much about them as about him, Dyckman says. But what if Trump doesn't come down, as so many think wishfully that he will? Shannon Nickinson ... «SaintPetersBlog, Jul 15»
3
Colin Cowherd's Dominican rant masks an ugly ESPN truth
Everything depends — on the offenders, real and wishfully imagined, and the victims, real and wishfully imagined. I'm not wise enough to judge whether ... «New York Post, Jul 15»
4
'Chilled', by Tom Jackson
With frequent digressions (the unsavoury origins of ice-cream; the adventures of the real-life Captain Birdseye; the cryogenics organisation wishfully dubbed ... «Financial Times, Jul 15»
5
Supreme Court will be issue in 2016
So capital punishment opponents who spoke of "an opening" toward ending executions based on Breyer's and Ginsburg's positions, are thinking wishfully. «Greenwood Index Journal, Jul 15»
6
Bernstein: Soccer Fans In A Better Place
... United Soccer Association that launched in the wake of the success of the 1999 women's team and folded in 2003, and other times just wishfully misplaced. «CBS Local, Jul 15»
7
Opinion: Anthony Kennedy and the Supremes
Many progressives (perhaps thinking wishfully) hailed those hallmark rulings as indicative of a Supreme Court political left turn. UC Irvine law and political ... «Los Angeles Times, Jul 15»
8
Dapper Laughs attempts to save sinking career with plagiarised …
We hadn't heard much from Dapper Laughs in a few months, and we were beginning to (wishfully) think that he'd gone away. No such luck, unfortunately. «Irish Examiner, Jun 15»
9
Climate Change Calls for Science, Not Hope
Coupled with carbon capture and storage systems, they are wishfully expected to deliver “negative emissions” in the second half of this century. «New York Times, Jun 15»
10
Review: Lang Lang at the Metropolitan Museum in the Service of …
Perhaps wishfully, he also praised the acoustics of the room, calling them “very spiritual.” My experience from about 40 feet from the stage was the opposite. «New York Times, May 15»

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