Synonyms of the word

wish

• n. a desire, hope, or longing for something or for something to happen.
• n. an expression of such a desire etc.
• n. the process of expressing or thinking about such a desire etc. (often connected with ideas of magic and…
• n. the thing desired or longed for.
• n. (Sussex) a water meadow.
• v. (transitive) To desire; to want.
• v. (intransitive, followed by for) To hope (for a particular outcome).
• v. (ditransitive) To bestow (a thought or gesture) towards (someone or something).
• v. (intransitive, followed by to and an infinitive) To request or desire to do an activity.
• v. (transitive) To recommend; to seek confidence or favour on behalf of.

asking

• v. present participle of ask.
• n. The act or process of posing a question or making a request.
• n. (Rare in the singular) A request, or petition.

bid

• v. (transitive) To issue a command; to tell.
• v. (transitive) To invite; to summon; to pray for; to offer.
• v. (transitive) To utter a greeting or salutation.
• v. (intransitive) To make an offer to pay or accept a certain price.
• v. (transitive) To offer as a price.
• v. (intransitive) To make an attempt.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, card games) To announce (one's goal), before starting play.
• v. (obsolete) To proclaim (a bede, prayer); to pray.
• n. An offer at an auction, or to carry out a piece of work.
• n. (ultimate frisbee) A (failed) attempt to receive or intercept a pass.
• n. An attempt, effort, or pursuit (of a goal).

care

• n. (obsolete) Grief, sorrow.
• n. Close attention; concern; responsibility.
• n. Worry.
• n. Maintenance, upkeep.
• n. The treatment of those in need (especially as a profession).
• n. The state of being cared for by others.
• n. The object of watchful attention or anxiety.
• v. (intransitive) To be concerned about, have an interest in.
• v. (intransitive) To look after.
• v. (intransitive) To be mindful of.
• v. (intransitive) Polite or formal way to say want.

compliments

• n. plural of compliment.
• n. Good wishes.

desire

• v. To want; to wish for earnestly.
• v. To put a request to (someone); to entreat.
• v. To want emotionally or sexually.
• v. To express a wish for; to entreat; to request.
• v. To require; to demand; to claim.
• v. To miss; to regret.
• n. (countable) Someone or something wished for.
• n. (uncountable) Strong attraction, particularly romantic or sexual.
• n. (uncountable) Motivation.
• n. (uncountable) The feeling of desire.

druthers

• n. (US, informal, often jocular) Wishes, preferences, or ways.

express

• adj. (not comparable) Moving or operating quickly, as a train not making local stops.
• adj. (comparable) Specific or precise; directly and distinctly stated; not merely implied.
• adj. Truly depicted; exactly resembling.
• adj. (retail) Being a merchant offering a smaller selection of goods than a full or complete dealer of the…
• n. A mode of transportation, often a train, that travels quickly or directly.
• n. A service that allows mail or money to be sent rapidly from one destination to another.
• n. An express rifle.
• n. (obsolete) A clear image or representation; an expression; a plain declaration.
• n. A messenger sent on a special errand; a courier.
• n. An express office.
• n. That which is sent by an express messenger or message.
• v. (transitive) To convey or communicate; to make known or explicit.
• v. (transitive) To press, squeeze out (especially said of milk).
• v. (biochemistry) To translate messenger RNA into protein.
• v. (biochemistry) To transcribe deoxyribonucleic acid into messenger RNA.
• n. (obsolete) The action of conveying some idea using words or actions; communication, expression.
• n. (obsolete) A specific statement or instruction.

greet

• v. (transitive) To welcome in a friendly manner, either in person or through another means e.g. writing or…
• v. (transitive) To arrive at or reach, or meet (talking of something which brings joy).
• v. (transitive) To accost; to address.
• v. (intransitive) To meet and give salutations.
• v. (transitive) To be perceived by (somebody).
• adj. (obsolete outside Scotland) Great.
• v. (Scotland, Northern England) To weep; to cry.
• n. (obsolete) Mourning, weeping, lamentation.

greeting

• n. A conventional phrase used to start a letter or conversation or otherwise to acknowledge a person's arrival…
• n. (uncountable) The action of the verb to greet.
• v. present participle of greet.

like

• v. (transitive, archaic) To please.
• v. To enjoy, be pleased by; favor; be in favor of.
• v. (obsolete) To derive pleasure of, by or with someone or something.
• v. To prefer and maintain (an action) as a regular habit or activity.
• v. (obsolete) To have an appearance or expression; to look; to seem to be (in a specified condition).
• v. (archaic) To come near; to avoid with difficulty; to escape narrowly.
• v. To find attractive; to prefer the company of; to have mild romantic feelings for.
• v. (obsolete) To liken; to compare.
• v. (Internet, transitive) To show support for, or approval of, something posted on the Internet by marking…
• n. (usually in the plural) Something that a person likes (prefers).
• n. (Internet) An individual vote showing support for, or approval of, something posted on the Internet.
• adj. Similar.
• adj. (obsolete) likely; probable.
• adv. (informal) For example, such as: to introduce an example or list of examples.
• adv. (archaic, colloquial) Likely.
• adv. (obsolete) In a like or similar manner.
• n. (sometimes as the likes of) Someone similar to a given person, or something similar to a given object;…
• n. (golf) The stroke that equalizes the number of strokes played by the opposing player or side.
• conj. (colloquial) As, the way.
• conj. As if; as though.
• prep. Similar to, reminiscent of.
• part. (colloquial, Scotland, Geordie, Teesside, Liverpudlian) A delayed filler.
• part. (colloquial) A mild intensifier.
• part. (colloquial) indicating approximation or uncertainty.
• part. (colloquial, slang) When preceded by any form of the verb to be, used to mean “to say” or “to think”;…
• interj. (Liverpudlian, Geordie) Used to place emphasis upon a statement.

order

• n. (uncountable) Arrangement, disposition, sequence.
• n. (uncountable) The state of being well arranged.
• n. Conformity with law or decorum; freedom from disturbance; general tranquillity; public quiet.
• n. (countable) A command.
• n. (countable) A request for some product or service; a commission to purchase, sell, or supply goods.
• n. (countable) A group of religious adherents, especially monks or nuns, set apart within their religion…
• n. (countable) An association of knights.
• n. any group of people with common interests.
• n. (countable) A decoration, awarded by a government, a dynastic house, or a religious body to an individual,…
• n. (countable, taxonomy) A rank in the classification of organisms, below class and above family; a taxon…
• n. A number of things or persons arranged in a fixed or suitable place, or relative position; a rank; a row;…
• n. An ecclesiastical grade or rank, as of deacon, priest, or bishop; the office of the Christian ministry;…
• n. (architecture) The disposition of a column and its component parts, and of the entablature resting upon…
• n. (cricket) The sequence in which a side’s batsmen bat; the batting order.
• n. (electronics) a power of polynomial function in an electronic circuit’s block, such as a filter, an amplifier,…
• n. (chemistry) The overall power of the rate law of a chemical reaction, expressed as a polynomial function…
• n. (mathematics) The cardinality, or number of elements in a set or related structure.
• n. (graph theory) The number of vertices in a graph.
• n. (order theory) A partially ordered set.
• n. (order theory) The relation on a partially ordered set that determines that it in fact a partially ordered…
• n. (mathematics) The sum of the exponents on the variables in a monomial, or the highest such among all monomials…
• v. (transitive) To set in some sort of order.
• v. (transitive) To arrange, set in proper order.
• v. (transitive) To issue a command to.
• v. (transitive) To request some product or service; to secure by placing an order.
• v. To admit to holy orders; to ordain; to receive into the ranks of the ministry.

preference

• n. The selection of one thing or person over others (with the main adposition being "for" in relation to…
• n. The option to so select, and the one selected.
• n. The state of being preferred over others.
• n. A strong liking or personal valuation.
• n. A preferential bias; partiality; discrimination.
• v. (US) To give preferential treatment to; to give a preference to.
• n. Preferans, a card game, principally played in Eastern Europe.

recognise

• v. (transitive) To match something or someone which one currently perceives to a memory of some previous…
• v. (transitive) To acknowledge the existence or legality of something; treat as worthy of consideration or…
• v. (transitive) To acknowledge or consider as something.
• v. (transitive) To realise or discover the nature of something; apprehend quality in; realise or admit that.
• v. (transitive) To give an award.

recognize

• v. (transitive) To match something or someone which one currently perceives to a memory of some previous…
• v. (transitive) To acknowledge the existence or legality of something; treat as valid or worthy of consideration.
• v. (transitive) To acknowledge or consider as something.
• v. (transitive) To realize or discover the nature of something; apprehend quality in; realize or admit that.
• v. (transitive) To give an award.
• v. To show appreciation of.
• v. (obsolete) To review; to examine again.
• v. (obsolete) To reconnoiter.
• v. (immunology) To have the property to bind to specific antigens.
• v. To cognize again.

regard

• n. (countable) A steady look, a gaze.
• n. One's concern for another; esteem.
• n. (preceded by “in” or “with”) A particular aspect or detail; respect, sense.
• n. (uncountable) The worth or estimation in which something or someone is held.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To set store by (something), to hold (someone) in esteem; to consider to have value,…
• v. To look at; to observe.
• v. (transitive) To consider, look upon (something) in a given way etc.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To take notice of, pay attention to.
• v. (transitive) To face toward.
• v. (transitive) To have to do with, to concern.

request

• n. Act of requesting (with the adposition at in the presence of possessives, and on in their absence).
• n. A formal message requesting something.
• n. Condition of being sought after.
• n. (obsolete) That which is asked for or requested.
• v. to express the need or desire for.
• v. to ask somebody to do something.

salutation

• n. A greeting, salute, or address; a hello.
• n. The act of greeting.
• n. The title in a person's name, such as Mr, Mrs, Ms., Dr., or Rev..

utter

• adj. (now poetic, literary) Outer; furthest out, most remote.
• adj. (obsolete) Outward.
• adj. Absolute, unconditional, total, complete.
• v. (transitive) To say.
• v. (transitive) To use the voice.
• v. (transitive) To make speech sounds which may or may not have an actual language involved.
• v. (transitive) To make (a noise).
• v. (law, transitive) To put counterfeit money, etc., into circulation.
• adv. (obsolete) Further out; further away, outside.

verbalise

• v. Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of verbalize.

verbalize

• v. To speak or to use words to express.
• v. (grammar) To adapt a word of another part of speech as a verb.

want

• v. (transitive) To wish for or to desire (something).
• v. (intransitive, now dated) To be lacking, not to exist.
• v. (transitive) To lack, not to have (something).
• v. (transitive, colloquially with verbal noun as object) To be in need of; to require (something).
• v. (intransitive, dated) To be in a state of destitution; to be needy; to lack.
• n. (countable) A desire, wish, longing.
• n. (countable, often followed by of) Lack, absence.
• n. (uncountable) Poverty.
• n. Something needed or desired; a thing of which the loss is felt.
• n. (Britain, mining) A depression in coal strata, hollowed out before the subsequent deposition took place.

will

• v. (rare, transitive) To wish, desire (something).
• v. (rare, intransitive) To wish or desire (that something happen); to intend (that).
• v. (auxiliary) To habitually do (a given action).
• v. (auxiliary) To choose to (do something), used to express intention but without any temporal connotations…
• v. (auxiliary) Used to express the future tense, sometimes with some implication of volition when used in…
• v. (auxiliary) To be able to, to have the capacity to.
• n. One's independent faculty of choice; the ability to be able to exercise one's choice or intention.
• n. One's intention or decision; someone's orders or commands.
• n. The act of choosing to do something; a person’s conscious intent or volition.
• n. A formal declaration of one's intent concerning the disposal of one's property and holdings after death;…
• n. (archaic) That which is desired; one's wish.
• n. (archaic) Desire, longing. (Now generally merged with later senses.).
• v. (archaic) To wish, desire.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To instruct (that something be done) in one's will.
• v. (transitive) To try to make (something) happen by using one's will (intention).
• v. (transitive) To bequeath (something) to someone in one's will (legal document).

wishing

• v. present participle of wish.
• n. The act of making a wish.