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Hopeful

Hopeful Meaning & Definition
Hopeful Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Hopeful?

[n] an ambitious and aspiring young person; "a lofty aspirant"; "two executive hopefuls joined the firm"; "the audience was full of Madonna wannabes"
[adj] presaging good fortune; "she made a fortunate decision to go to medical school"; "rosy predictions"
[adj] having or manifesting or inspiring hope; "a line of people hopeful of obtaining tickets"; "found a hopeful way of attacking the problem"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Hopeful: anticipant | anticipative | aspirant | aspirant | aspirer | aspiring(p) | auspicious | expectant | fortunate | rosy | wannabe | wannabee | wishful | would-be(a)

Related Terms | Find terms related to Hopeful: 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 | Leibnizian optimist | 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 | Pollyanna | predictable | predictable within limits | prepared | presidential timber | presumable | presumptive | probable | promising | propitious | pubescent | radiant | ray of sunshine | ready | reassuring | riant | roseate | rose-colored | 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

See Also | applicant | applier | encouraging | optimistic

Hopeful In Webster's Dictionary

\Hope"ful\, a. 1. Full of hope, or agreeable expectation; inclined to hope; expectant. Men of their own natural inclination hopeful and strongly conceited. --Hooker. 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.

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