Related Words for wishful

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hopeful
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Adjective
aspiring
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Adjective, Adjective
aspirant
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Adjective, Adjective
delusional
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Adjective
fanciful
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Adjective
naive
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Adjective
cynical
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Adjective
misguided
x/x
Adjective
deluded
x/x
Adjective
idealistic
xxx/x
Adjective
pessimistic
xx/x
Adjective
foolish
/x
Adjective
optimistic
xx/x
Adjective
shortsighted
//x
Adjective
unrealistic
xx/x
Adjective
fatuous
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Adjective
delusive
x/x
Adjective
superstitious
xx/x
Adjective
wistful
/x
Adjective
pragmatic
x/x
Adjective
quixotic
x/x
Adjective
silly
/x
Adjective
cynic
/x
Noun
foolhardy
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Adjective
irrational
x/xx
Adjective
childish
/x
Adjective
naivete
xxx/
Noun
fantastical
x/xx
Adjective
farfetched
//
Adjective
pious
/x
Adjective
idiotic
xx/x
Adjective
credulous
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Adjective
positivistic
/xx/x
Adjective
myopic
x/x
Adjective
speculative
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Adjective
dreaming
/x
Noun
blinkered
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Adjective
figment
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Noun
fatalistic
xx/x
Adjective
utopian
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Adjective
presumptuous
x/xx
Adjective
illogical
x/xx
Adjective
shrewd
/
Adjective
gullible
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Adjective
unreflective
xx/x
Adjective
vague
/
Adjective
ahistorical
xx/xx
Adjective
erroneous
x/xx
Adjective
solipsistic
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Adjective
idealist
x/x
Noun
uncritical
x/xx
Adjective
vacuous
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Adjective
skeptical
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Adjective
plausible
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Adjective
baseless
/x
Adjective
imaginings
x/xx
Noun
uninformed
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Adjective
disingenuous
xx/xx
Adjective
rationalistic
/x/x
Adjective
dubious
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Adjective
dreamer
/x
Noun
nonsense
/x
Noun
conjecture
x/x
Noun
egocentric
xx/x
Adjective
unsophisticated
xx/xxx
Adjective
overzealous
xx/x
Adjective
thoughtless
/x
Adjective
speculation
xx/x
Noun
hyperbole
x/xx
Noun
chimerical
x/xx
Adjective
ingenuous
x/xx
Adjective
wondered
/x
Verb
ware
/
Noun
romantic
x/x
Adjective
toward
x/
Adjective, Noun
likely
/x
Adjective
hungered
/x
Verb
divine
x/
Name
needful
/x
Adjective
might
/
Noun
mindful
/x
Adjective
ancient
/x
Noun
fain
/
Noun
sometimes
x/
Adverb
rare
/
Adjective
devoted
x/x
Verb
officious
x/x
Adjective
careful
/x
Adjective
thinking
/x
Verb, Noun
phantasy
/xx
Noun
phantasies
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Noun
daydreams
/x
Noun
appeasement
x/x
Noun
fantasy
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Noun
thinkers
/x
Noun
rationalizations
xxxx/x
Noun
contrary
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Noun
impulses
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Noun
fancy
/x
Noun
psychosis
x/x
Noun
yearning
/x
Noun
longing
/x
Noun
projection
x/x
Noun
illusions
x/x
Noun
anticipation
xxx/x
Noun
prophecy
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Noun
thoughts
/
Noun
expectation
xx/x
Noun
imagination
xxx/x
Noun
distortion
x/x
Noun
hearing
/x
Noun
denial
x/x
Noun
hopes
/
Noun
belief
x/
Noun
abstracted
/xx
Adjective
advisable
x/xx
Adjective
anachronistic
xxx/x
Adjective
desirable
x/xx
Adjective, Noun
fond
/
Verb, Noun, Adjective
grandiose
xx/
Adjective
lustful
/x
Adjective
muddled
/x
Adjective
sanguine
/x
Adjective, Noun, Verb
unreal
x/
Adjective
vain
/
Adjective, Verb, Noun
wish
/
Verb, Noun
no
/
Noun, Adverb, Adjective
bulletproof
/xx
Adjective, Verb
milestone
/x
Noun, Verb
anymore
xx/
Adverb
stonewall
/x
Name, Verb, Adjective
shirtless
/x
Adjective
sorta
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Adverb