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発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈwɪʃfəl/
• 韻: -ɪʃfəl

形容詞

wishful (comparative more wishful, superlative most wishful)

1. (obsolete) Wished-for; desired, wanted.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     The cry whereof entring the hollow cave / Eftsoones brought forth the villaine, as they ment, / With hope of her some wishfull boot to have.

2. Expressing a wish or longing for something.
   • 1789, Olaudah Equiano, chapter 5, in The Interesting Narrative, volume I:

     When she weighed anchor I went to the waterside and looked at her with a very wishful and aching heart, and followed her with my eyes and tears until she was totally out of sight.

3. Aspiring, or seeking advancement.

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