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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

Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  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

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "hopeful":

    promising, optimistic, confident, encouraging, hope, upbeat

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How to use hopeful in a sentence?

  1. Dave Marver:

    This aligns with our mission and it allows us to protect those who have signed up to protect us, the technology remains in development, but it’s very promising and we’re hopeful it will make a big difference in the lives of our servicemen and women.

  2. Nirmal Singh:

    Our family is overwhelmed and grateful for the amount of support my father received after this horrible assault. He has now arrived back in India, where he can receive the additional care and support he needs in this difficult time from our family, we are hopeful that a suspect will be arrested, because we see this as an attack on all who wear turbans and other articles of faith -- and even though my father has left New York, we will do everything we can to continue helping the investigation.

  3. Jennifer Aniston:

    I could not believe that, actually. Like, really? That's my brother! But I understand it, though, it just shows you how hopeful people are for fantasies for dreams to come true.

  4. John Gabrieli:

    Obviously the children that go on to depression the more we can identify them well the more we are hopeful that we can get preventive treatments going. Not waiting for them to be suffering but helping them beforehand, so we want to learn both to identify early children who are at true risk, help them before they struggle and learn from those that are resilient what is different about them because that might be a hint about how to help the children that are not resilient.

  5. Robert Ryan:

    I’m very optimistic, I’m very hopeful for the patients, there may be other things that may come along, but we’re really looking at a potential opportunity for families right now.


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