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Wishful vs Deromanticize - What's the difference?

wishful | deromanticize |

As an adjective wishful

is (obsolete) wished-for; desired, wanted.

As a verb deromanticize is

to strip of romance; to make realistic rather than wishfully ideal.

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

    deromanticize

    English

    Verb

    (deromanticiz)
  • To strip of romance; to make realistic rather than wishfully ideal.