单词 | wishfulness |
释义 | wishfulness (once / 422119 pages) n WORD FAMILY wishful: wishfully, wishfulness+/wish: wished, wishes, wishful, wishing/wished: unwished/wishing: wishings USAGE EXAMPLES“There’s a kind of wishfulness to the movie in that it assumes there are still scandals that could potentially demolish someone,” Mr. Harris said. New York Times(Nov 20, 2016) There’s a degree of wishfulness here, since any advance will hinge of taming the very forces whose existence form the spine of modern Brazilian history. Slate(Aug 07, 2016) Especially if the Republicans can believe in the preposterous boasts of their front-runner, why can’t Democrats believe in the wondrous wishfulness of its underdog? New York Times(Feb 15, 2016) n an unrealistic yearning Hyper hungriness, longing, yearning prolonged unfulfilled desire or need |
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