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

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1. hopefuladjective

   Synonyms:
   expectant, optimistic, promising, sanguine

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1. disheartened

   full of hope

   Submitted by rinat on September 23, 2019  

How to use hopeful in a sentence?

1. Goodluck Jonathan:

   I am more hopeful now than before on the Chibok girls.

2. Brian Weinrich:

   I'm hopeful for a bit of a break.

3. Lisa Peterson:

   Aside from some congestion and coughing, the gorillas are doing well. the troop remains quarantined together and are eating and drinking. We are hopeful for a full recovery.

4. 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.

5. Millan Mulraine:

   This suggests that U.S. household sentiment has turned an important corner, and is a hopeful sign on the outlook for consumer spending activity going forward, given signs of weakness in other parts of the economy.

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