noun as in desire
Strongest matches
ambition, aspiration, choice, hope, inclination, intention, longing, prayer, preference, request, will, yearning
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Example Sentences
Sending our love and best wishes to you both as you start your new life together.
While there is a wish amongst leaders to protect their own people first, the response to this pandemic has to be collective.
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There’s a wish list from San Diego Council members of what they’d like to get done with that $62 million.
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We get lots of encouraging comments from users whose wishes were included in our roadmap.
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Now, it should be noted that meta robots tag might be ignored at any point, but mostly crawlers respect the wishes of the webmasters.
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And yes, our values include tolerance of those who wish to make fun of religion.
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I wish I was a young Carole King, working in the Brill Building.
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Ultimately, 2015 might be the year American anti-LGBT advocates wish they could skip.
At this point Marvin gives his Liberty Valance smile, the kind that makes you wish you could disintegrate in front of him.
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Still, I wish that DuVernay had given us more about those who are less famous besides a scene where they all eat dinner together.
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When Yima pressed the earth with this ring, the genius of the Earth, Aramaîti, responded to his wish and order.
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I mean it is well my mother is ill, and doesn't wish to eat, for there would be nothing for her, if she did.
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At the end of the first year, however, she resigned this privilege because she did not wish to accept the conditions of the gift.
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How often did I then wish myself with my dear Glumdalchtch, from whom one single hour had so far divided me.
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As the hopeless wish passed through his soul, the iron entered with it, but did not pass away.
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Related Words
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When To Use
What are other ways to saywish?
To wish is to feel an impulse toward attainment or possession of something; the strength of the feeling may be of greater or lesser intensity: I wish I could go home. Desire, a more formal verb, suggests a strong wish: They desire liberation. Want, usually colloquial in use, suggests a feeling of lack or need that imperatively demands fulfillment: People all over the world want peace.
On this page you'll find 164 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to wish, such as: ambition, aspiration, choice, hope, inclination, and intention.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
