WISHFULLY Synonyms: 22 Similar and Opposite Words

wishfully

adverb

as in gladly

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Fans rushed the field afterward, and the Vols will gladly pay the SEC fine.

— Mark Long, Chicago Tribune, 18 Oct. 2026
The Chargers will gladly play a game where each team gets six possessions.

— Troy Renck, Denver Post, 10 Oct. 2026

Definition of gladly

Adverb

Trump’s yearly average of removing 380,000 migrants forcibly, rather than voluntarily, is lower than Barack Obama’s average of 392,000 annually in his first term.

— Alec Dent, Washington Post, 22 Oct. 2026
Japanese websites were also voluntarily offline, including systems for daycare centers and video games, the Japanese tech news site ITmedia reported.

— Kevin Collier, NBC news, 21 Oct. 2026

Definition of voluntarily

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Earlier this year, the White House struck a series of deals with offshore wind developers to abandon projects off the coast and invest instead in fossil fuel infrastructure.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2026
To avoid cutting workers, Torani cut back on other expenses instead, including marketing and advertising.

— Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2026

Definition of instead

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Beyond cargo transport, KONA’s modular architecture and optionally piloted design could eventually support other configurations, including communications relay, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR), and payload delivery.

— Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 22 Oct. 2026
Wavecamper, too, installs two individual rear seats standard but offers fifth and sixth seats optionally, expanding the Flex E-Line's capability to serve as a proper everyday MPV for families, as well as a cozy four-sleeper camper van.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 7 Oct. 2026

Definition of optionally

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If the solution isn’t to migrate 70% of the web to a new programming language, then fixing its underlying problems – and all the other software problems in the world – would hardly be an easy fix, either.

— David Goldman, CNN Money, 23 Oct. 2026
Blitzes also haven’t bothered USC’s passing attack much, either.

— Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2026

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