Usually means: Desiring something without practical basis.
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We found 22 dictionaries that define the word wishful:

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  1. wishful: Merriam-Webster
  2. wishful: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. wishful: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. wishful: Collins English Dictionary
  5. wishful: Vocabulary.com
  6. Wishful, wishful: Wordnik
  7. wishful: Wiktionary
  8. wishful: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. wishful: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. wishful: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. wishful: Dictionary.com
  12. wishful: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. Wishful: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. wishful: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. wishful: Rhymezone
  16. Wishful: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. wishful: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. wishful: FreeDictionary.org
  19. wishful: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. wishful: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. wishful: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. wishful: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (wishful)

▸ adjective:  (obsolete) Wished-for; desired, wanted.
▸ adjective:  Expressing a wish or longing for something.
▸ adjective:  Aspiring, or seeking advancement.

Similar:
would-be, hopeful, aspiring, aspirant, wanted, desyrous, suspired, adreamed, wantsome, adreamt, more...

Opposite:
realistic, practical, rational

Types:
thinking, hope, desire, wish, longing, yearning, aspiration, more...

Phrases:
wishful thinking, wishful thinkers, wishful thinker, King of Wishful Thinking, Wishful Drinking, more...

Colors:
    lavender,     periwinkle,     mint green,     blush pink,     sky blue, more...



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Similar:
would-be, hopeful, aspiring, aspirant, wanted, desyrous, suspired, adreamed, wantsome, adreamt, more...

Opposite:
realistic, practical, rational

Types:
thinking, hope, desire, wish, longing, yearning, aspiration, more...

Phrases:
wishful thinking, wishful thinkers, wishful thinker, King of Wishful Thinking, Wishful Drinking, Wishful Sinful, opposite of wishful, excited manic wishful, opposite of opposite of wishful, more...

Colors:
    lavender,     periwinkle,     mint green,     blush pink,     sky blue, more...



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