171 synonyms found

Pronunciation:

[ wˈɪʃɪŋ], [ wˈɪʃɪŋ], [ w_ˈɪ_ʃ_ɪ_ŋ]

Similar words for wishing:

• believing (adjective)
• desirous (adjective)
• hoping (adjective)
• other relevant words (adjective)
• wishful (adjective)
• other relevant words (noun)
• choosing (verb)
• desiring (verb)
• hoping (verb)
• intending (verb)
• requesting (verb)
• other synonyms
• other relevant words (noun)

Paraphrases for wishing

Synonyms for Wishing:

• adj.

  • believing (adjective)
  • Hoping.
  • desirous (adjective)
  • prehensile,
  • wishful.
  • hoping (adjective)
  • looking forward.
  • Other relevant words: (adjective)
  • desirous,
  • Requesting.
  • wishful (adjective)
  • more daydreaming,
  • most hankering,
  • longful,
  • most daydreaming,
  • more hankering,
  • most longful,
  • more longful.

• n.

  • Other relevant words: (noun)
  • desire.

• v.

  • choosing (verb)
  • judging,
  • Choosing,
  • Adopting,
  • determining,
  • deciding,
  • picking,
  • Electing,
  • favoring,
  • Fancying,
  • liking,
  • Preferring,
  • Selecting,
  • Espousing.
  • desiring (verb)
  • itching,
  • longing,
  • grasping,
  • Needing,
  • pining,
  • craving,
  • Thirsting,
  • hankering,
  • Lusting,
  • Coveting,
  • welcoming,
  • Hungering.
  • hoping (verb)
  • trusting,
  • Awaiting,
  • Anticipating,
  • assuming,
  • aspiring,
  • yearning,
  • Desiring,
  • believing,
  • Contemplating,
  • wanting,
  • dreaming of,
  • Presuming,
  • Relying.
  • intending (verb)
  • resolving,
  • Endeavoring,
  • Proposing,
  • scheming,
  • planning,
  • meaning,
  • Expecting,
  • Minding,
  • Aiming,
  • Intending,
  • Considering.
  • requesting (verb)
  • inquiring,
  • urging,
  • pleading,
  • Petitioning,
  • seeking,
  • probing,
  • Querying,
  • appealing,
  • bidding,
  • requisitioning,
  • Soliciting,
  • summoning,
  • demanding,
  • questioning,
  • inviting.

• Other synonyms:

  • Other relevant words (noun):
  • choice,
  • discern,
  • identify,
  • make out,
  • acknowledge,
  • hope,
  • deficiency,
  • privation,
  • aspiration,
  • necessity,
  • accredit,
  • libidinal,
  • felicitating,
  • avidly,
  • welcome,
  • default,
  • appetite,
  • realize,
  • desperate,
  • hardship,
  • Congratulating,
  • hungry,
  • hoper,
  • meet,
  • destitution,
  • flimsily,
  • pick out,
  • eagerly,
  • loss,
  • musingly,
  • option,
  • volition,
  • aim,
  • velleity,
  • greet,
  • know,
  • libidinous,
  • caring,
  • longingly,
  • eagerness,
  • worrying,
  • wishing well,
  • aching,
  • want,
  • inclination,
  • indirect request,
  • Wisher,
  • pensively,
  • tell apart,
  • anxious,
  • recognize,
  • lack,
  • Purposing,
  • recognise,
  • salute,
  • bid,
  • ambition,
  • Contemplatively,
  • wish for,
  • deprivation,
  • wishfully,
  • wistfully,
  • absence,
  • hail,
  • defect,
  • come,
  • eager,
  • election,
  • utter,
  • realise,
  • Objecting,
  • calling,
  • distinguish,
  • needful,
  • enviously,
  • Lickerish,
  • dearth,
  • covetous,
  • loving,
  • wish,
  • regard,
  • thirsty,
  • receive,
  • regarding,
  • meditatively,
  • wishes,
  • vote,
  • pleasing,
  • Pleasuring,
  • lustful,
  • lascivious,
  • need,
  • unhopeful.

Paraphrases for Wishing:

• Forward Entailment

  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    Desiring.

• Independent

  • Noun, singular or mass
    desire, willingness.
  • Verb, past tense
    interested, wanted.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    appealing, asking, aspiring, assuming, booking, brooding, calling, catering, changing, circulating, communicating, conveying, dealing, demanding, die, directing, finding, flying, focusing, greeting, hearing, inviting, issuing, lacking, lending, looking, making, meaning, offering, ordering, pretending, putting, ready, searching, seeing, seeking, sending, speaking, stealing, striving, surrounding, trying, urging, wandering, wanting, welcoming, wondering, yearning, Acceding, Addressing, Aiming, Applying, Attempting, Awaiting, Choosing, Claiming, Doing, Electing, Expecting, Exploring, Expressing, Extending, Forming, Hoping, Intending, Marrying, Needing, Petitioning, Reiterating, Requesting, Requiring, Robbing, Selecting, Treating, Whoever, Congratulating, Considering, Contemplating, Soliciting, Stating, Stipulating, Submitting, Suggesting, contacting, complimenting, loans, ensuring, researching, candidates, targeting, opting, endeavouring.
  • Verb, 3rd person singular present
    hopes, wants.

• Other Related

  • Noun, singular or mass
    Desiring.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    struggling.