Emotions

Synonyms for wish

The synonym for wish recorded in this bank is like, in the sense "to hope, to desire or to prefer to have something, or to do something". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.

1 synonym · Tier 1, Foothills · 1 sense · verb

The synonym for wish

likeverb, in the sense "to hope, to desire or to prefer to have something, or to do something"

One pair, read and signed off by a human before it shipped. The bank records a synonym per sense, so a second one appears here the day wish is audited in a second meaning.

The senseverbTier 1, FoothillsEmotions

to hope, to desire or to prefer to have something, or to do something

You may stay here as long as you wish.

One sentence, one sense. Without it the word could be read three other ways.

The true synonym

Same sentence, swapped: You may stay here as long as you like.

Close but different

These three are the other tiles for this sense. Each is a real word, and none of them can stand where wish stands in the sentence above.

bid
miss
seek

Where wish turns up in the game

wish is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 1, Foothills. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.

Play wish

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so wish reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.

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This page is built from Open English WordNet 2025, with the sense, the sentence, the tier and the near misses read by a human in the July 2026 audit. Nothing on it is written while the page is built.

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envynounjealousya feeling of discontented longing aroused by someone else's possessions or qualitiesFoothillsHas a reason line fretverbworryto be constantly or visibly anxious about somethingFoothillsHas a reason line gladadjectivehappyeagerly disposed to act or to be of serviceFoothills2 senses gleefullyadverbjoyfullyin a manner full of exuberant, often mischievous joyFoothillsHas a reason line dolefullyadverblugubriouslyin a mournful, sorrowful mannerSummitHas a reason line egotisticaladjectivevaincharacteristic of false prideRidgeline elationnounrapturegreat happiness and exhilarationRidgelineHas a reason line surrenderverbdeliverrelinquish possession or control overFoothillsHas a reason line

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