(transitive) To desire; to want.
Used in a Sentence
wished
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for wished.
Editorial note
Maybe I have atypical phone usage patterns, but the only application I have every wished I could run in the background is Pandora.
Examples15
Definitions4
Parts of speech1
Quick take
(transitive) To desire; to want.
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of wished gathered in one view.
(intransitive, followed by for) To hope (for a particular outcome), even if that outcome is unlikely to occur or cannot occur.
(intransitive, followed by to and an infinitive) To request or desire to do an activity.
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for wished.
verb
(transitive) To desire; to want.
verb
(intransitive, followed by for) To hope (for a particular outcome), even if that outcome is unlikely to occur or cannot occur.
verb
(intransitive, followed by to and an infinitive) To request or desire to do an activity.
verb
(ditransitive) To bestow (a thought or gesture) towards (someone or something).
Example sentences
Maybe I have atypical phone usage patterns, but the only application I have every wished I could run in the background is Pandora.
Just wished that they did not pick a title comes across as manuscript for snake oil selling.
Just as they would have wished their parents (and the establishment) to trust in them when they were just starting out in the world.
This man made the country stand on its feet technologically and here he falls amidst his students as he wished his death to be.
I have always wished to stay here to work, if only to pay some of it back to my country.
I wished it was a strawman, then I could have simply not written the article.
This is honestly really cool and I was thinking only weeks ago how I wished there was a resource like this.
Books I wished to read may not get the same priority to read later on.
I sincerely wished that 'wontfix' is a thing that only applied to closed source software.
Far as Cloudron, the co-founder already helpfully told me what their goals/market were, they made sense, and I wished them well on that.
I wished it's in Openwrt's CC release, but anyway it's great news indeed.
Yes Have I been on sites where I wished zoom was DISabled?
Quote examples
The "burn night" is like a huge communal party and walking around I get wished a "happy Burnday".
He said: "I've never had a patient who survived (suicidal thinking) and later wished that they had killed themselves." Sorry I couldn't find the quote and may be paraphrasing a bit, I share this because this personal mantra has kept me from the ledge when my thoughts were otherwise debilitating.
My favorite line from that book: "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use wished in a sentence?
Maybe I have atypical phone usage patterns, but the only application I have every wished I could run in the background is Pandora.
What does wished mean?
(transitive) To desire; to want.
What part of speech is wished?
wished is commonly used as verb.