wishful

Other forms of wishful

comparative

wishfuller·

superlative

wishfullest·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about wishful

What does wishful mean?

wishful means "having or expressing desire for something". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in wishful?

wishful has 2 syllables: wish-ful. The stress falls on "wish". In IPA it is /ˈwɪʃfəl/.

What is another word for wishful?

Close synonyms include desirous, aspirant, aspiring. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is wishful a common word?

wishful is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.