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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.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
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
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