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, 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, 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. Gautam Bhan:

   Everyone's trying to manage expectations and be cautiously hopeful.

2. Anne Applebaum:

   We admired Silberman’s work because it is powered by a strongly argued set of beliefs: That we should stop drawing sharp lines between what we assume to be 'normal' and 'abnormal', and that we should remember how much the differently wired human brain has, can and will contribute to our world, he has injected a hopeful note into a conversation that's normally dominated by despair.

3. Ford Motor Co:

   We continue to prioritize the need for one national program and remain hopeful that the parties can find a solution to achieve this goal.

4. Ro Khanna:

   Expanding Medicare is something that we ought to be committed to as a party, obviously there's some of us who believe in Medicare-for-all ... but even if we are disagreeing on the specifics, we can agree that expansion is important.I'm hopeful that that will all be tackled in a third proposal.

5. Astronaut Scott Kelly:

   I ’d like for the legacy of this flight to be that we can decide to do hard things and hard things that will take us further away from the Earth and this is one of them, i ’m hopeful and I think we will learn a lot about longer duration space flight and how that will take us to Mars someday. So, I would like to think this is another of many stepping stones to us landing on Mars some time in our future.