wishful

/ˈwɪʃfʊl/

US pronunciation

American sound/ˈwɪʃfʊl/

wishful

Syllables: 2 syllables
Stress: 1st syllable stress
Vowel: Short i vowel
Ending: Clear final sound

wis - hful -> wishful

Myanmar meaning

ဆန္ဒရှိနေသော။

Full entry

wish /wÇʃ/ v

၁။ (က) (with that often omitted and the that- clause usu in the past tense) ဆန္ဒရှိသည်။ စေချင်သည်။ ဖြစ်လိုသည်။ I wish you hadn't told me all this. ❍ She wished she had (ie was sorry she had not) stayed at home. ❍ I wish I knew what was going to happen. ❍ I wish he wouldn't go out every night. ❍ I wish I were rich. ❍ He's dead and it's no use wishing him alive again.
(ခ) ~ (for sth) တောင့်တသည်။ ဆုတောင်းသည်။ It's no use wishing for things you can't have. ❍ What more could one wish for? (ie Everything is perfect. ) ❍ Shut your eyes and wish.
(ဂ) (fml ) လိုလားသည်။ အလိုရှိသည်။ …လိုသည်။ …ချင်သည်။ I'll do it if that's what you wish. ❍ I don't wish (ie mean) to be rude, but that's not what you said yesterday. ❍ She wishes to be alone. ❍ Do you wish me to leave now? ❍ HOPE
၂။ ဆုတောင်းမေတ္တာပို့သည်။ We wish you a Merry Christmas! ❍ They wished us a pleasant journey. ❍ His colleagues wished him happiness on his retirement. ❍ Wish me luck!
n
၁။ [C] (က) ~ (to do sth); ~ (for sth) ဆန္ဒ။ အာသီသ။ လိုရာဆု။ She expressed a wish to be alone. ❍ He had no wish to intrude on their privacy. ❍ If you had three wishes what would you choose? ❍ Her wish came true (ie She got what she wished for). ❍ You have deliberately acted against my wishes.
(ခ) တောင့်တရာ။ တောင်းဆု။ You will get your wish.
၂။ wishes [pl] ~ es (for sth) ဆုတောင်းမေတ္တာ။ with best wishes (eg at the end of a letter) ❍ We all send our best wishes (for your recovery).
❏ (just) as you wish [IDM ] မင်းသဘော။ We can meet at my house or yours, just as you wish.
❏ wish sth away [PHRV ] မေ့ပျောက်ပစ်ချင်သည်။ These problems can't be wished away, you know.
❏ wishful /-fl/ adj (fml ) ဖြစ်ချင်သော။ လိုချင်တောင့်တသော။ It is nothing but a wishful fantasy.
❏ wishful thinking n [U] ဖြစ်ချင်တာ။ ဖြစ်လိုတာ။ There is no evidence to suggest that this forecast is anything but wishful thinking.
❏ wish sb/ sth on sb [PHRV ] (infml ) (in negative sentences) ကြုံစေချင်သည်။ It's not a job I'd wish on anybody. ဒီအလုပ်မျိုးနဲ့ ဘယ်သူမှ မကြုံစေချင်ဘူး။
❏ your wish is my command [IDM ] (joc ) စေလိုရာစေ။ See also DEATH-WISH

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Synonyms

desire, aspiration, hope, yearning, longing, craving, fancy, inclination, want, ambition, ask, ask for, aspire, beg, bid, bidding, choice, choose, command, covet, crave, demand, desiderate, disposition, elect, entreat, envy, expect, hanker, hankering, hunger, intention, invocation, invoke, itch, like, liking, long, look forward to, need, order, please, pleasure, pray for, prayer, prefer, preference, request, require, requirement, set one's heart on, sigh for, solicit, spoil for, thirst, urge, whim, will, yearn, yen

Antonyms

answer, despise, disinclination, dislike, give, hate, hatred, ignore, spurn

Cross references

desire aspiration hope yearning longing craving fancy inclination want ambition ask ask for aspire beg bid bidding choice choose command covet crave demand desiderate disposition elect entreat envy expect