hopeful
If you're hopeful about something, you're optimistic. You think it's going to turn out OK. Your team has been doing well in practice, so you're hopeful that you'll win the finals.
Hopeful comes from the word hope, meaning "optimism about a future event," and the suffix -ful, meaning "full." So if you're hopeful, you're full of hope: you think something good is going to happen. You might be hopeful that you'll be offered a job after your great interview. Used as a noun, hopeful can describe a promising person who wants to succeed at a particular goal. The charismatic young politician is a hopeful for the next election.
Definitions of hopeful
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having or manifesting hope“a line of people hopeful of obtaining tickets”“found a hopeful way of attacking the problem”
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Synonyms:
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encouraging
giving courage or confidence or hope
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anticipant, anticipative, expectant
marked by eager anticipation
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optimistic
expecting the best in this best of all possible worlds
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Antonyms:
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hopeless
without hope because there seems to be no possibility of comfort or success
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discouraging
depriving of confidence or hope or enthusiasm and hence often deterring action
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abject, unhopeful
showing utter resignation or hopelessness
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bleak, dim
offering little or no hope
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despairing, desperate
arising from or marked by despair or loss of hope
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despondent, heartsick
without or almost without hope
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forlorn
marked by or showing hopelessness
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futureless
having no prospect or hope of a future
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helpless, lost
unable to function; without help
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insoluble
without hope of solution
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pessimistic
expecting the worst possible outcome
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impossible
not capable of occurring or being accomplished or dealt with
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encouraging
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full of promise“a hopeful new singer on Broadway”
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auspicious
auguring favorable circumstances and good luck
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auspicious
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an ambitious and aspiring young person
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