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Antonyms 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"

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

    Synonyms:
    aspirer, wannabee, aspirant, wannabe

  2. hopefuladjective

    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, unfortunate

    Synonyms:
    promising, bright

  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"

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

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

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. hopefuladjective

    Synonyms:
    expectant, optimistic, promising, sanguine

Editors Contribution0.0 / 0 votes

  1. disheartened

    full of hope

    Submitted by rinat on September 23, 2019  

How to use hopeful in a sentence?

  1. Mandy Moore:

    I think the show is ultimately hopeful.

  2. Harry Reid:

    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.

  3. Liana Roodt:

    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.

  4. Larry Millete:

    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.’.

  5. State John Kerry:

    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.

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Words popularity by usage frequency

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#271black
#1079lost
#6496desperate
#9389dim
#12840unfortunate
#17640hopeful
#19578helpless
#22400hopeless
#25029bleak
#37818insoluble
#51865abject
#57035forlorn
#75438despairing
#88648despondent
#137695inauspicious
#253954heartsick

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