Word familynounwisherwishfulnesswishingwishbonewishful thinkingwish listadjectivewishfuladverbwishfullyverbwish
ˌwishful ˈthinking noun [uncountableU]
HOPEwhen you believe that what you want to happen will happen, when in fact it is not possible 单凭主观意愿的想法;一厢情愿
I think she rather likes me. But maybe that’s just wishful thinking.
我觉得她很喜欢我,不过也许那只是我一厢情愿的想法。
Examples from the Corpus
wishful thinking• Coping with waste will always be hard, and hypocrisy and wishful thinking will not make it easier.• Personally I see this as wishful thinking rather than practicallogic.• Mere logic and abstinence from wishful thinking had enabled Milner to summarise the story of the next sixty years.• Lomas, for instance, finds his pleasure in wishful thinking about the war.