Will
Meaning of Will
verb
- (now uncommon or literary) To wish, desire (something).
Do what you will.
- (nowadays rare) To wish or desire (that something happen); to intend (that).
- (auxiliary) To habitually do (a given action).
- (auxiliary) To choose to (do something); used to express intention but without any temporal connotations (+ bare infinitive), often in negation.
I’ve told him three times, but he won’t take his medicine.
- (auxiliary) Used to express the future tense, sometimes with some implication of volition when used in the first person. Compare shall.
- (auxiliary) To be able to, to have the capacity to.
Unfortunately, only one of these gloves will actually fit over my hand.
- (auxiliary) Expressing a present tense with some conditional or subjective weakening: "will turn out to", "must by inference".
- One's independent faculty of choice; the ability to be able to exercise one's choice or intention.
Of course, man's will is often regulated by his reason.
- One's intention or decision; someone's orders or commands.
Eventually I submitted to my parents' will.
- The act of choosing to do something; a person’s conscious intent or volition.
Most creatures have a will to live.
- Law A formal declaration of one's intent concerning the disposal of one's property and holdings after death; the legal document stating such wishes.
- That which is desired; one's wish.
- Desire, longing. (Now generally merged with later senses.)
He felt a great will to make a pilgrimage to the Holy Land.
- To wish, desire.
- To instruct (that something be done) in one's will.
- To try to make (something) happen by using one's will (intention).
All the fans were willing their team to win the game.
- To bequeath (something) to someone in one's will (legal document).
He willed his stamp collection to the local museum.
Information about Will
- It's a proper name.
- The plural form of Will is: Wills.
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Hyphenation of Will
Will
- It consists of 1 syllables and 4 chars.
- Will is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
Will synonyms
Meaning volition:
Meaning testament:
Meaning wish:
Meaning bequeath:
Words that rhyme with Will
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