Usually means: Hoping with unrealistic expectations, optimistically.
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General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. wishfully: Merriam-Webster
  2. wishfully: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. wishfully: Collins English Dictionary
  4. wishfully: Vocabulary.com
  5. wishfully: Wordnik
  6. wishfully: Wiktionary
  7. wishfully: Dictionary.com
  8. wishfully: Rhymezone
  9. wishfully: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  10. wishfully: FreeDictionary.org
  11. wishfully: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. wishfully: TheFreeDictionary.com

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

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▸ adverb:  In a wishful manner.

Similar:
hopingly, wistfully, unwishfully, dreamingly, wishingly, dreamfully, optimistically, dreamily, hopefully, wishy-washily, more...

Opposite:
hopelessly, pessimistically, realistically

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Similar:
hopingly, wistfully, unwishfully, dreamingly, wishingly, dreamfully, optimistically, dreamily, hopefully, wishy-washily, more...

Opposite:
hopelessly, pessimistically, realistically



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