Synonyms for Hopeful
ˈhoʊp fəlhope·ful

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1. hopefulnoun

   Antonyms:
   desperate, hopeless

2. hopefuladjective

   Feeling hope.

   Several presidential hopefuls are campaigning in New Hampshire this week.

   Antonyms:
   desperate, hopeless

3. hopefuladjective

   Antonyms:
   hopeless, desperate

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1. aspirant, aspirer, hopeful, wannabe, wannabeeadjective

   an ambitious and aspiring young person

   "a lofty aspirant"; "two executive hopefuls joined the firm"; "the audience was full of Madonna wannabes"

   Synonyms:
   aspirer, hopeful, wannabee, aspirant, wannabe

   Antonyms:
   heartsick, insoluble, helpless, inauspicious, futureless, forlorn, lost, hopeless, bleak, despondent, black, despairing, unhopeful, unfortunate, dim, desperate, abject

2. hopefuladjective

   having or manifesting hope

   "a line of people hopeful of obtaining tickets"; "found a hopeful way of attacking the problem"

   Synonyms:
   promising, bright

   Antonyms:
   helpless, dim, abject, inauspicious, despairing, futureless, bleak, lost, insoluble, desperate, heartsick, hopeless, unhopeful, forlorn, black, despondent, unfortunate

3. bright, hopeful, promisingadjective

   full or promise

   "had a bright future in publishing"; "the scandal threatened an abrupt end to a promising political career"; "a hopeful new singer on Broadway"

   Synonyms:
   smart, hopeful, vivid, promising, shiny, undimmed, bright, shining, brilliant, lustrous, burnished

   Antonyms:
   lost, futureless, bleak, black, unhopeful, dim, hopeless, inauspicious, helpless, abject, unfortunate, heartsick, despondent, forlorn, despairing, insoluble, desperate

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1. hopefuladjective

   Synonyms:
   expectant, optimistic, promising, sanguine

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1. List of paraphrases for "hopeful":

   promising, optimistic, confident, encouraging, hope, upbeat

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1. Mike Pompeo:

   They may have been demoralized, but they seemed in good spirits, they are hopeful that State Department will get State Department swagger back, that we will be out doing the things that they came onboard at State Department to do : to be professional, to deliver diplomacy, American diplomacy around the world.

2. Jonathan Miller:

   It's not going to be a light switch, but the news is starting to get people to be hopeful and think about returning to New York City. Because right now, without a vaccine, it is status quo.

3. Jennifer Chang:

   Overall, this is a really unfortunate result of the President's shutdown, and we are hopeful that the new Congress will be able to reach a resolution that enables all of these things to move forward.

4. David Howman:

   I'm hopeful in a few months' time they will have an active program.

5. Thomas Bailey Aldrich:

   To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - that is to triumph over old age.