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wish-fulfilling

wish-fulfilling adjective: able to grant wishes.

Adjective

wish-fulfilling (comparative more wish-fulfilling, superlative most wish-fulfilling)

  1. 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
  2. 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

comparativemore wish-fulfilling
superlativemost wish-fulfilling
alternative formwishfulfilling

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

  1. wish upon a star
  2. wish well
  3. wish you well
  4. wish'd
  5. wish-cycling
  6. wish-fulfilling
  7. wish-wash
  8. wish-washed
  9. wish-washes
  10. wish-washing
  11. Wish.com

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