| 词汇 | wishfully |
| 释义 | wishfully adverb uk /ˈwɪʃ.fəl.i/ us /ˈwɪʃ.fəl.i/ in a way that imagines or discusses what you wish or hope for, especially when this is very unlikely to happen: They expected a crowd of 10,000 people to show up to the concert, but that figure turned out to be wishfully optimistic. He wants to play in the World Cup, but he knows that he is thinking wishfully. "Do you think you might want to go out for ice cream later?" he asked wishfully. He wishfully exaggerated the extent of his knowledge in his conversations with journalists. Hoping and hopefulness appealingly beyond someone's expectations boosterish boosterism bright spot fancy hope springs eternalidiom hopeful hopefully hopefulness ill it's an ill wind (that blows nobody any good)idiom over-optimism over-optimistic over-optimistically pin your hopes on something/someoneidiom pious pipe dream positively wing Related wordwishful |
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