wish-fulfilling
wish-fulfilling adjective: able to grant wishes.
Adjective
wish-fulfilling (comparative more wish-fulfilling, superlative most wish-fulfilling)
- Able to grant wishes.
- That precious wish-fulfilling jewel, although it has no thought, if it is placed on top of a victory banner, will rain down jewels, food, and clothing.2004, Khenpo Karthar Rinpoche, Karma Chakme's Mountain Dharma - Volume 1, page 317
- This is actually a safety measure because if the wish-fulfilling mantras were easily chanted, there would no doubt be many people who would misuse them.2005, Stephen Knapp, The Heart of Hinduism, page 408
- Satisfying a wish.
- And their dreams were the ones that prompted Freud in 1933 to acknowledge an exception to his 1900 thesis that manifest dream contents universally feature wish-fulfilling scenarios in more or less disguised forms.1998, Dionysios Anapolitanos, Aristeidēs Baltas, Stavroula Tsinorema, Philosophy and the Many Faces of Science, page 273
- Earlier we saw that, at the level of the individual sentence, the novel is usually in the indicative or flatly descriptive mode; at the level of plot itself, however, the mood is often 'optative' or wish-fulfilling.2011, Andrew Dix, Brian Jarvis, Paul Jenner, The Contemporary American Novel in Context
Examples of wish-fulfilling in a sentence
- The three wish-fulfilling gems, Are sealed to the great yogi2006, The Great Kagyu Masters:
- This is what we mean by wish-fulfilling hallucination.2011, Dermot Gilvary, Darren J. N. Middleton, Dangerous Edges of Graham Greene:
Forms of wish-fulfilling
| comparative | more wish-fulfilling |
|---|---|
| superlative | most wish-fulfilling |
| alternative form | wishfulfilling |
Questions about wish-fulfilling
- What does wish-fulfilling mean?
- Wish-fulfilling means able to grant wishes.
- How do you use wish-fulfilling in a sentence?
- The three wish-fulfilling gems, Are sealed to the great yogi
- What part of speech is wish-fulfilling?
- Wish-fulfilling is an adjective.
Words near wish-fulfilling in the dictionary
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