wish-fulfilling
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.70 in modern English
27
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
5
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Satisfying a wish.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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."
- "The three wish-fulfilling gems, Are sealed to the great yogi"
- "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."
- "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."
- "This is what we mean by wish-fulfilling hallucination."