What is another word for wish?
1408 synonyms foundPronunciation:
[ wˈɪʃ], [ wˈɪʃ], [ w_ˈɪ_ʃ]Table of Contents
Similar words for wish:- other relevant words (adjective)
- aim (noun)
- ambition (noun)
- aspiration (noun)
- behest (noun)
- choice (noun)
- compliments (noun)
- daydream (noun)
- desire (noun)
- dream (noun)
- feeling (noun)
- free will (noun)
- hankering (noun)
- hope (noun)
- impulse (noun)
- inclination (noun)
- indirect request (noun)
- intent/intention (noun)
- intention (noun)
- longing (noun)
- mind (noun)
- mood (noun)
- motivation (noun)
- need (noun)
- object (noun)
- other relevant words (noun)
- purpose (noun)
- request (noun)
- say-so (noun)
- voice (noun)
- volition (noun)
- vote (noun)
- will (noun)
- aim (verb)
- aspire (verb)
- bid (verb)
- choose (verb)
- desire (verb)
- hanker (verb)
- hanker after/hanker for (verb)
- hope (verb)
- impose (verb)
- intend (verb)
- like (verb)
- long (verb)
- lust (verb)
- mean (verb)
- need (verb)
- pine (verb)
- please (verb)
- prefer (verb)
- repine (verb)
- request (verb)
- require (verb)
- want (verb)
- will (verb)
- other synonyms
- choose
- hope
- impose
- like
- long
- mean
- other relevant words
- pant
- please
- require
- other relevant words (noun)
Synonyms for Wish:
adj.
•Other relevant words: (adjective)n.
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- enchanted,
- abracadabra,
- black magic,
- halloween,
- ESP,
- extrasensory perception,
- alchemy,
- curse,
- the black arts,
- enchantment.
-
•
- I'm sorry,
- pardon,
- excuse me,
- if only,
- I/we regret to inform/tell you that,
- I hate to say/admit,
- promise,
- I beg your pardon,
- my (humble/deepest/sincere etc.) apologies,
- I'm afraid.
-
•
- have a good/nice something,
- regards,
- may someone rest in peace,
- get well (soon),
- bless you,
- a plague on someone.
-
•
- someone's heart's desire,
- hone,
- the goods,
- man cannot live by bread alone,
- all someone wants,
- wants.
- goal.
- determination,
- preference,
- judgment,
- volition,
- decision,
- option,
- selection,
- alternative,
- discretion.
- conceivings,
- castle in air,
- pie in sky,
- fool paradise,
- pie the sky,
- figment imagination,
- IN ZONE,
- stargazings,
- fancyings,
- pie sky,
- mind trips,
- fools paradise,
- in a zones,
- castle the air,
- fond hopes,
- in zones,
- castle air,
- woolgatherings.
- Ardency,
- covetousness,
- itch,
- thirst,
- greed,
- hunger,
- expectation,
- yearning,
- acquisitiveness,
- amorousness,
- fondness.
- one's choice,
- Conation,
- one's own will,
- voluntary decision,
- free decision,
- one's discretion,
- person's full intent and purpose,
- one's own choice,
- own say so,
- own sweet way,
- velleity,
- free choice.
- name the game,
- under-standing,
- under standing,
- in-tents,
- name game,
- under standings,
- under-standings,
- in tents,
- nuts bolts.
- agenda,
- prospectus,
- proposal,
- consideration,
- forecast,
- calculation,
- approach,
- schedule,
- idea,
- scenario,
- intention,
- strategy,
- policy,
- forethought,
- procedure,
- choice.
- self-discipline,
- desire,
- need,
- aspiration,
- request,
- devoirs,
- mind trip,
- druthers,
- needs,
- oughts,
- hope,
- selfcontrol,
- stargazing,
- voice,
- ambition,
- woolgathering,
- end purpose,
- whole idea,
- nuts and bolts,
- Visions,
- instructions,
- object,
- inclination,
- phantasy,
- ought,
- erotism,
- election,
- pursuits,
- enterprise,
- enterprises,
- will,
- end in view,
- heart's desire,
- the urge,
- devoir,
- mind,
- low spirits,
- intents,
- motivation,
- committals,
- aim,
- way of thinking,
- dream,
- Hungering,
- bourn,
- figment of imagination,
- why and wherefore,
- desideratum,
- behest,
- impulse,
- where one's headed,
- fond hope,
- hearts desire,
- longing,
- expressed desire,
- notion,
- munchies,
- hankering,
- whyfor,
- intendments,
- fire in belly,
- purpose,
- urge,
- big idea,
- ulterior motive,
- instruction,
- committal,
- Intendment,
- imaginings,
- in a zone,
- name of game,
- high spirits,
- solicitation,
- solicitations,
- wish,
- where one is heading,
- phantasies,
- bourns,
- Desiderata,
- whatfor,
- free will,
- pleasure,
- word,
- promptings,
- fire in the belly,
- vote,
- willfulness,
- daydream.
- where one headed,
- why and wherefores,
- where headed,
- where headeds,
- big ideas,
- where one's headeds,
- whatfors,
- whyfors,
- where one headeds,
- why wherefore,
- where ones headed,
- pre-meditation,
- whole ideas,
- pre meditations,
- pre meditation,
- where ones headeds,
- ulterior motives,
- pre-meditations,
- why wherefores.
v.
•aim (verb)- sight,
- address,
- direct,
- propose,
- focus,
- zoom in,
- contemplate,
- attempt,
- cast,
- concentrate,
- angle,
- slant,
- fix,
- level,
- essay,
- try,
- intend,
- steer,
- train,
- endeavor,
- strive.
- excerpt,
- fix on,
- accept,
- winnow,
- discriminate between,
- fancy,
- set aside,
- extract,
- decide,
- judge,
- elect,
- tag,
- love,
- select,
- feel disposed to,
- espouse,
- name,
- make decision,
- call for,
- take up,
- single out,
- decide on,
- weigh,
- sift out,
- make choice,
- slot,
- tap,
- appoint,
- embrace,
- commit oneself,
- draw lots,
- adopt,
- determine,
- predestine,
- sort,
- favor,
- co-opt,
- glean,
- see fit,
- pick,
- cull,
- finger,
- opt for,
- tab,
- take,
- designate,
- make up one's mind,
- settle upon,
- separate.
- de-creed,
- de cree,
- lays down the law,
- in fringe,
- forced up on,
- forcing up on,
- pre-scribes,
- reads riot act,
- forces up on,
- pre-scribing,
- ex acts,
- intro duce,
- in-fringed,
- pre-scribed,
- de creed,
- de crees,
- in fringes,
- in fringing,
- moving on,
- in-fringing,
- moved on,
- pre-scribe,
- lays down,
- laying down the law,
- putting foot down,
- ex act,
- in-fringe,
- ex-acting,
- de-cree,
- laying down law,
- takes advantage,
- moving in on,
- intro-duce,
- pre scribe,
- laid down the law,
- intro-duces,
- ex acting,
- forcing upon,
- moves on,
- ex-acted,
- in fringed,
- laid down law,
- ex-act,
- pre scribing,
- forces upon,
- de-crees,
- puts foot down,
- lay down law,
- reading riot act,
- in-fringes,
- moves in on,
- took advantage,
- lays down law,
- force up on,
- intro duces,
- moved in on.
- feels like,
- cared to,
- hath preference for,
- hast preference for,
- hadst a preference for,
- inclines toward,
- have preference for,
- caring to,
- haddest preference for,
- hadst preference for,
- felt like,
- feeling disposed,
- felt disposed,
- had a preference for,
- had preference for,
- hast a preference for,
- cares to,
- feels disposed,
- has preference for,
- hath a preference for,
- has a preference for,
- having preference for,
- haddest a preference for,
- having a preference for.
- hadst a yen for,
- haddest a yen for,
- have yen for,
- hast a yen for,
- having yen for,
- has a yen for,
- had a yen for,
- spoiled for,
- hadst yen for,
- having a yen for,
- hath yen for,
- spoilt for,
- hast yen for,
- haddest yen for,
- has yen for,
- hath a yen for,
- had yen for,
- spoils for.
- art consumed with desire,
- art hot for,
- are hot for,
- am consumed with desire,
- are consumed with desire,
- being hot for,
- wast hot for,
- is consumed with desire,
- wert hot for,
- was consumed with desire,
- wast consumed with desire,
- was hot for,
- being consumed with desire,
- am hot for,
- were hot for,
- wert consumed with desire,
- hungers for,
- is hot for,
- were consumed with desire,
- hungered for.
- re-solves,
- pre ordain,
- pre ordaining,
- pre-ordained,
- pre-ordains,
- re-solved,
- re solves,
- pre ordains,
- re solve,
- re-solve,
- sets out,
- pre-ordain,
- re-solving,
- pre-ordaining,
- pre ordained.
- felt necessity for,
- hadst occasion to,
- art in need of,
- am needy,
- are in need of,
- wast poor,
- are in want,
- am hard up,
- suffering privation,
- yenning for,
- is needy,
- art deficient,
- wert need of,
- is in need of,
- am need of,
- had occasion for,
- had occasion to,
- are want,
- are hard up,
- felt the pinch,
- am deficient,
- dies for,
- wert needy,
- feeling the necessity for,
- am deprived,
- hast occasion for,
- were hard up,
- are inadequate,
- are deprived,
- art hard up,
- were inadequate,
- was need of,
- being short,
- hurts for,
- hath use for,
- went hungry,
- is want,
- be need of,
- art inadequate,
- being needy,
- is without,
- feeling dearth of,
- wert poor,
- be down out,
- felt dearth of,
- wast down and out,
- art without,
- felt pinch,
- hadst use for,
- goes hungry,
- hast use for,
- wast inadequate,
- were short,
- wert without,
- art deprived,
- am short,
- art in want,
- wert want,
- was needy,
- being in need of,
- dieing for,
- wast need of,
- wast deficient,
- wast short,
- were without,
- are down and out,
- haddest occasion to,
- was short,
- was deficient,
- was deprived,
- wert in need of,
- is deficient,
- am without,
- wert deficient,
- was want,
- were poor,
- has use for,
- are short,
- hadst occasion for,
- were want,
- hast occasion to,
- were in want,
- was in need of,
- being down and out,
- died for,
- feel pinch,
- being deficient,
- is need of,
- felt a dearth of,
- was in want,
- being in want,
- are without,
- hath occasion for,
- drives for,
- am down out,
- wert hard up,
- feel dearth of,
- being hard up,
- is short,
- being deprived,
- having occasion to,
- were down and out,
- wast needy,
- felt the necessity for,
- wast deprived,
- art want,
- art needy,
- wert short,
- are poor,
- am down and out,
- were in need of,
- drove for,
- were deficient,
- was inadequate,
- were down out,
- yenned for,
- being down out,
- having use for,
- art poor,
- feels necessity for,
- had use for,
- is down and out,
- haddest occasion for,
- feels pinch,
- being inadequate,
- is hard up,
- wast down out,
- suffers privation,
- is deprived,
- has occasion for,
- has occasion to,
- being need of,
- having occasion for,
- suffered privation,
- wast in need of,
- were deprived,
- was without,
- is inadequate,
- be want,
- is poor,
- were needy,
- are down out,
- being want,
- feels a dearth of,
- art short,
- haddest use for,
- is in want,
- feeling a dearth of,
- feeling necessity for,
- feels the pinch,
- wert down out,
- was down and out,
- wert deprived,
- feels dearth of,
- wert inadequate,
- are deficient,
- wert down and out,
- feeling pinch,
- was hard up,
- was down out,
- wert in want,
- art need of,
- wast want,
- was poor,
- wast without,
- yens for,
- wast hard up,
- drave for,
- am want,
- driving for,
- feels the necessity for,
- hath occasion to,
- am poor,
- were need of,
- being poor,
- going hungry,
- wast in want,
- is down out.
- lusts after,
- carried a torch,
- carries a torch,
- carrying a torch,
- languished for,
- lusting after,
- languishing for,
- carries torch,
- languishes for,
- lusted after,
- thirsts for,
- carry torch,
- thirsted for,
- carrying torch,
- carried torch.
- being inclined,
- wast inclined,
- was inclined,
- are inclined,
- were inclined,
- art inclined,
- wert inclined.
- pro pones,
- are turned to,
- liked better,
- am partial to,
- pro pone,
- wast partial to,
- woulded rather,
- art turned to,
- likes better,
- up graded,
- fixt up on,
- woulding sooner,
- pro positioned,
- pro positions,
- proponing,
- pro-motes,
- wast turned on to,
- pro pound,
- optates,
- pro-positioning,
- in-cline,
- optating,
- in cline,
- pre-sent,
- pre sent,
- being turned on to,
- be turned to,
- pro-pound,
- being partial to,
- pro-positions,
- pro pounding,
- up-grades,
- wert partial to,
- woulds rather,
- art partial to,
- is turned on to,
- is partial to,
- pro-pounding,
- is turned to,
- was turned to,
- proponed,
- woulds sooner,
- art turned on to,
- pro-pones,
- am turned to,
- optated,
- up-grading,
- are turned on to,
- am turned on to,
- fixt upon,
- fixes upon,
- were turned to,
- wert turned on to,
- in-clines,
- wast turned to,
- liking better,
- up grades,
- fixes up on,
- fixing up on,
- up grade,
- were partial to,
- pro moting,
- pro positioning,
- was partial to,
- up grading,
- in clines,
- are partial to,
- pro-positioned,
- putting forward,
- wert turned to,
- woulded sooner,
- fixing upon,
- pro position,
- pro-pounded,
- pro-mote,
- fixed up on,
- woulding rather,
- was turned on to,
- pro-pone,
- fix up on,
- being turned to,
- pre-sents,
- pro-moting,
- up-graded,
- were turned on to,
- pro pounded,
- pro pounds,
- pro-pounds.
- having need,
- re-quires,
- depending upon,
- has need,
- hurtinged for,
- re quires,
- depending up on,
- stand need,
- re quired,
- standing in need,
- hast need,
- re quiring,
- hath need,
- stood need,
- hadst need,
- stood in need,
- depends upon,
- re quire,
- hurtinging for,
- hurtings for,
- re-quiring,
- standing need,
- depends up on,
- stands need,
- stands in need,
- depended upon,
- haddest need,
- depend up on,
- depended up on,
- had need,
- re-quired,
- re-quire.
- haddest urge for,
- itches for,
- Desiderated,
- hadst eyes for,
- had eyes for,
- has a passion for,
- coulding do with,
- having ambition,
- hath urge for,
- Desiderating,
- feels a need,
- hadst an urge for,
- coulds do with,
- had an urge for,
- hast a passion for,
- haddest an urge for,
- hadst a passion for,
- hadst urge for,
- haddest passion for,
- hath a passion for,
- has an urge for,
- hath eyes for,
- having urge for,
- coulded do with,
- hath ambition,
- felt a need,
- wast greedy,
- feels need,
- art greedy,
- had ambition,
- hast eyes for,
- feeling need,
- feeling a need,
- is greedy,
- has urge for,
- hast urge for,
- has eyes for,
- itched for,
- has ambition,
- am greedy,
- hadst ambition,
- haddest ambition,
- have urge for,
- hath passion for,
- having passion for,
- being greedy,
- having eyes for,
- had a passion for,
- were greedy,
- haddest a passion for,
- have passion for,
- hast an urge for,
- hast ambition,
- hath an urge for,
- wert greedy,
- are greedy,
- was greedy,
- hast passion for,
- felt need,
- feel need,
- had passion for,
- having a passion for,
- haddest eyes for,
- has passion for,
- had urge for,
- having an urge for,
- hadst passion for.
Other synonyms:
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- impatience,
- look for,
- clamor,
- addiction,
- appetency,
- temptation,
- pine for,
- wish list,
- wish for,
- do with,
- live for,
- see fit to,
- mood,
- appetence,
- want in,
- want out,
- wanderlust,
- gesundheit,
- stick out for,
- urgency.
-
•
- thought,
- the Holy Grail,
- yen.
-
•
- line up.
-
•
- burn.
- tabbing,
- winnowing,
- settled upon,
- singled out,
- making up one's mind,
- Coopt,
- setting aside,
- tabbed,
- Slotted,
- singling out,
- drawing lots,
- opting for,
- Slotting,
- make up mind,
- Extracting,
- sifting out,
- opts for.
- have faith,
- watch for,
- look forward to,
- deem likely,
- knock on wood,
- Hoped,
- feel confident,
- sweat out,
- depend on,
- depended on,
- hang in,
- watched for,
- sweat it out,
- having faith,
- sweat it,
- looking forward to,
- think to,
- be sure of,
- watching for,
- sweating out,
- knock wood,
- keep fingers crossed,
- promise oneself,
- take heart,
- look at sunny side.
- Levied,
- infringe,
- Saddling,
- forced upon,
- laying down,
- saddled,
- lay down the law,
- take advantage,
- move in on,
- laid down,
- obtrude,
- put foot down,
- move on,
- force upon,
- lay down,
- taking advantage,
- read riot act.
- feel disposed,
- incline toward,
- inclined toward,
- have a preference for,
- feeling like,
- care to,
- inclining toward,
- feel like.
- spoiling for,
- dreamed of,
- suspiring,
- have a yen for,
- dreaming of,
- suspires,
- dreamt of,
- spoil for,
- suspire,
- Suspired,
- dreams of.
- hankering for,
- fix upon,
- Propone,
- have occasion for,
- cream for,
- targeting,
- have use for,
- feel the pinch,
- miss,
- be in want,
- like,
- feeling the pinch,
- bid,
- fixed upon,
- NS,
- fored,
- desiderates,
- yens,
- feel a dearth of,
- have occasion to,
- Thirsted,
- hurt for,
- be ambitious,
- be hard up,
- be in need of,
- hanker for,
- die for,
- propones,
- pant,
- FORS,
- prefer,
- partial to,
- impose,
- hunger for,
- aspire,
- thirst for,
- please,
- Lacked,
- go hungry,
- thirsting for,
- being without,
- zero in on,
- mourn,
- be greedy,
- be hot for,
- pine,
- itch for,
- have a passion for,
- levels,
- have an urge for,
- puts forward,
- long,
- be poor,
- be partial to,
- drive for,
- feel the necessity for,
- hungering for,
- carry a torch,
- lust,
- be eager,
- be deprived,
- Optate,
- N,
- Desiderate,
- could do with,
- itching for,
- lust after,
- be without,
- be inadequate,
- wanted,
- repine,
- suffer privation,
- like better,
- be turned on to,
- mean,
- Endeavoring,
- Ned,
- dying for,
- feel a need,
- be deficient,
- put forward,
- choose,
- Hungered,
- be consumed with desire,
- Targeted,
- have a mind to,
- languish for,
- require,
- wanting,
- zero on,
- would sooner,
- have eyes for,
- yearn,
- would rather,
- yen for,
- be short,
- Struggled,
- foring,
- be needy,
- have ambition,
- be down and out,
- set one's sights on.
- involve,
- entertain,
- lack,
- instruct,
- conjure,
- make,
- beg leave,
- good,
- virtually,
- deprivation,
- predilection,
- pleased,
- highly,
- choose to,
- will and pleasure,
- whistle for,
- intellect,
- delight,
- handle,
- bear,
- reckon upon,
- extraordinary,
- concupiscence,
- press,
- greatly,
- felicitate,
- judgement,
- happy,
- necessity,
- taste,
- entreat,
- foist,
- congratulate,
- plot,
- esteem,
- pruriency,
- yearn for,
- moral,
- die,
- say-so,
- Coveting,
- beg,
- strange,
- trusting,
- commitment,
- peculiar,
- prize,
- insistence,
- graceful,
- regard,
- very,
- meditatively,
- apply,
- specify,
- focus on,
- foreign,
- faithful,
- catch,
- adjure,
- partiality,
- harbour,
- frame of mind,
- application,
- ordain,
- attraction,
- pray to,
- want to,
- desirous,
- curiosity,
- take to,
- worry,
- envy,
- eagerly,
- plan for,
- heed,
- pure,
- forbidden fruit,
- set one's heart on,
- try for,
- invoke,
- prurience,
- Desideration,
- gaze,
- sincere,
- Neediness,
- narrowly,
- way,
- longingly,
- be desirous of,
- pray for,
- requirement,
- solicitous,
- be willing to,
- force,
- decree,
- genuine,
- plan on,
- aim at,
- chaste,
- offer,
- beseech,
- Familiarly,
- truly,
- ardour,
- keenness,
- position,
- pensively,
- bespeak,
- sigh for,
- have in view,
- pleasant,
- exigency,
- strive for,
- ultimatum,
- resolution,
- purposefulness,
- indent,
- libido,
- would like,
- animus,
- most,
- aspire to,
- hunger after,
- deal,
- order,
- intimately,
- privation,
- wishfully,
- become silent,
- fair,
- eager,
- favour,
- palm,
- disposition,
- prerequisite,
- wish fulfillment,
- respect,
- compel,
- infrequent,
- calculate on,
- pleasure principle,
- enviously,
- care,
- closely,
- drive,
- opt,
- magnet,
- tender,
- whim,
- extraneous,
- requisite,
- around,
- honest,
- righteous,
- deficiency,
- trophy,
- hanker after,
- think fit,
- really,
- uncommon,
- nearly,
- count on,
- would,
- reckon on,
- desired,
- be pleasing,
- disturb,
- honorable,
- penchant,
- thirst after,
- plum,
- virtuous,
- concerned,
- rare,
- attentiveness,
- Contemplatively,
- manage,
- propensity,
- agreeable,
- search for,
- ask for,
- count upon,
- Impetration,
- ardor,
- approximately,
- ask,
- elegant,
- unhopeful,
- Arriere Pensee,
- wish well,
- be motivated by,
- wistfully,
- roughly,
- molest,
- fantasy,
- be willing,
- have in mind,
- long for,
- bright,
- predisposition,
- file,
- reliance,
- motive,
- proclivity,
- heartfelt,
- lodestone,
- hope for,
- hand around.
Paraphrases for Wish:
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Independent
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Adjective
willing, interested.
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Proper noun, singular
urges, thunderstorms.
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Noun, singular or mass
Desiderata, vows, longing, ambition, Hoped, wanting, interest, expectation, desired, desirability, eagerness, willpower.
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Verb, gerund or present participle
Aiming, seeking, asking, Praying, calling, looking, running, Gunning, wanting.
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Verb, non-3rd person singular present
Kidding, loans, intend, like, congratulate, prefer, expect, Dreamt.
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Verb, base form
recommended, intend, like, congratulate, prefer, Chose, interest, expect, considered, Considering, deciding, invite, invited.
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Adjective
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Other Related
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Noun, singular or mass
intention, yearning, determination.
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Noun, singular or mass
Antonyms for Wish:
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n.
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v.
Homophones for Wish:
- wisch.
