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 Definitions for hopeful: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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Hopeful \Hope"ful\, a.
1. Full of hope, or agreeable expectation; inclined to hope;
expectant.
[1913 Webster]
Men of their own natural inclination hopeful and
strongly conceited. --Hooker.
[1913 Webster]
2. Having qualities which excite hope; affording promise of
good or of success; as, a hopeful youth; a hopeful
prospect. "Hopeful scholars." --Addison. -- {Hope"ful*ly},
adv. -- {Hope"ful*ness}, n.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 2.0
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hopeful
adj 1: having or manifesting or inspiring hope; "a line of people
hopeful of obtaining tickets"; "found a hopeful way of
attacking the problem" [ant: hopeless]
2: presaging good fortune; "she made a fortunate decision to go
to medical school"; "rosy predictions" [syn: fortunate,
rosy]
n : an ambitious and aspiring young person; "a lofty aspirant";
"two executive hopefuls joined the firm"; "the audience
was full of Madonna wannabes" [syn: aspirant, aspirer,
wannabe, wannabee]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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179 Moby Thesaurus words for "hopeful":
Leibnizian optimist, Pollyanna, addict, adolescent, advantageous,
agape, agog, all agog, also-ran, anticipant, anticipating,
anticipative, anticipatory, applicant, apt, aspirant, aspirer,
aspiring, assured, auspicious, awaiting, baby, baby kisser,
beaming, blithe, blithesome, bright, bright and sunny, budding,
candidate, certain, cheerful, cheering, cheery, chiliast,
collector, confident, content, couleur de rose, coveter,
dark horse, defeated candidate, desirer, devotee, dud, eager, easy,
elated, encouraging, eupeptic, euphoric, exalted, exhilarated,
expectant, expecting, fair, fancier, favorite son, fledgling,
flushed, fond, forearmed, foreseeable, forestalling, forewarned,
freak, full of hope, gaping, genial, glad, gladsome, glowing,
golden, halcyon, hankerer, happy, heartening, high, hoper, hoping,
in anticipation, in expectation, in good heart, in good spirits,
in high spirits, in hopes, in the cards, infant, inspiriting,
irrepressible, irrepressible optimist, junior, juvenal, juvenile,
lame duck, laughing, liable, likely, looking for,
looking forward to, lover, millenarian, millennialist, millennian,
minor, not surprised, odds-on, of good cheer, of good hope,
office seeker, optimist, optimistic, perfectibilist,
perfectibilitarian, perfectionist, philosophical optimist,
pleasant, political hopeful, predictable,
predictable within limits, prepared, presidential timber,
presumable, presumptive, probable, promising, propitious,
pubescent, radiant, ray of sunshine, ready, reassuring, riant,
rose-colored, roseate, rosy, running mate, sanguine, sanguineous,
sapling, satisfied, secure, seeker, slip, smiling, solicitant,
sparkling, sprig, stalking-horse, statistically probable,
stripling, suitor, sunny, sure, teenager, teener, teenybopper,
undespairing, undisturbed, unsurprised, up-and-coming, upbeat,
utopian, verisimilar, votary, waiting, waiting for, wanter,
watching for, winsome, wisher, yearner, young hopeful,
young person, younger, youngest, youngling, youngster, youth
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