What are some opposite words for hopeful?
Antonyms for hopeful
ˈhoʊp fəlhope·ful
This page is about all possible antonyms and opposite words for the term hopeful.
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Princeton's WordNet
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"
Antonyms:
heartsick, insoluble, helpless, inauspicious, futureless, forlorn, lost, hopeless, bleak, despondent, black, despairing, unhopeful, unfortunate, dim, desperate, abjecthopefuladjective
having or manifesting hope
"a line of people hopeful of obtaining tickets"; "found a hopeful way of attacking the problem"
Antonyms:
helpless, dim, abject, inauspicious, despairing, futureless, bleak, lost, insoluble, desperate, heartsick, hopeless, unhopeful, forlorn, black, despondent, unfortunatebright, 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"
Antonyms:
lost, futureless, bleak, black, unhopeful, dim, hopeless, inauspicious, helpless, abject, unfortunate, heartsick, despondent, forlorn, despairing, insoluble, desperateSynonyms:
smart, vivid, promising, shiny, undimmed, bright, shining, brilliant, lustrous, burnished
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
hopefuladjective
Synonyms:
expectant, optimistic, promising, sanguine
Editors Contribution
disheartened
full of hope
Submitted by rinat on September 23, 2019
How to use hopeful in a sentence?
I think the show is ultimately hopeful.
They're very hopeful but this isn't anything that's a slam dunk. I had serious injury to my eye, there's blood accumulated there, and they're hoping that resolves itself. As long as the blood is in the eye it's hard to see.
There is a part of me that is hopeful of there not being a need for Project Flamingo, for a health-care system that is equal and fairer.
Initially, that’s what I thought, but as the days go by, it’s very unlikely that that’s it, because she wouldn’t be gone this long. I’m still very hopeful that with all this media coverage, she’ll turn up and say, ‘Hey, I’m okay.’.
We remain very, very hopeful that Iran will make the decision to do the right thing and to return those citizens to the United States, and we are consistently, constantly even now continuing to work on that.
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#271 | black | |
#1079 | lost | |
#6496 | desperate | |
#9389 | dim | |
#12840 | unfortunate | |
#17640 | hopeful | |
#19578 | helpless | |
#22400 | hopeless | |
#25029 | bleak | |
#37818 | insoluble | |
#51865 | abject | |
#57035 | forlorn | |
#75438 | despairing | |
#88648 | despondent | |
#137695 | inauspicious | |
#253954 | heartsick |
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