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Hoping vs Wishful - What's the difference?

hoping | wishful |

As adjectives the difference between hoping and wishful

is that hoping is filled with or inspiring hope while wishful is (obsolete) wished-for; desired, wanted.

As a verb hoping

is .

hoping

English

Verb

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  • * William Trogdon
    • There are two kinds of adventurers: those who go truly hoping to find adventure and those who go secretly hoping they won't.
    I'm hoping the weather will be sunny tomorrow.

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Filled with or inspiring hope.
    • A hoping situation is not yet desolate.

    wishful

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Wished-for; desired, wanted.
  • * 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , V.9:
    • The cry whereof entring the hollow cave / Eftsoones brought forth the villaine, as they ment, / With hope of her some wishfull boot to have.
  • Expressing a wish or longing for something.
  • Aspiring, or seeking advancement.

    • Derived terms

    * wishful thinking