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Synonyms for hopeful
ˈhoʊp fəlhope·ful
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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"
Synonyms:
aspirer, wannabee, aspirant, wannabeAntonyms:
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"
Synonyms:
smart, vivid, promising, shiny, undimmed, bright, shining, brilliant, lustrous, burnishedAntonyms:
lost, futureless, bleak, black, unhopeful, dim, hopeless, inauspicious, helpless, abject, unfortunate, heartsick, despondent, forlorn, despairing, insoluble, desperate
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
hopefuladjective
Synonyms:
expectant, optimistic, promising, sanguine
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "hopeful":
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#1086 | hope | |
#2207 | smart | |
#3757 | bright | |
#6035 | brilliant | |
#7608 | confident | |
#7874 | encouraging | |
#9756 | promising | |
#10810 | vivid | |
#12379 | shining | |
#13343 | shiny | |
#14413 | optimistic | |
#17640 | hopeful | |
#23693 | upbeat | |
#28632 | wannabe | |
#39862 | lustrous | |
#52276 | burnished | |
#80169 | aspirant | |
#182974 | wannabee | |
#241176 | undimmed |
How to use hopeful in a sentence?
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin:
I think we're very close to a deal today. I'm hopeful that we can get that done.
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.
I am hopeful we can make some progress to begin to bring this to a point of resolution, i think Qatar has been quite clear in its positions, and I think those have been very reasonable.
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.
This administration is not going to do that, and I'm very hopeful that North Koreans will make a substantial step towards achieving the full denuclearization in a verifiable way in North Korea.
Translations for hopeful
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- nadějnýCzech
- hoffnungsvollGerman
- ελπιδοφόροςGreek
- esperanzadoSpanish
- toiveikas, toivoa herättäväFinnish
- encourageantFrench
- misniúilIrish
- dòchasach, gealltanachScottish Gaelic
- pieno di speranzaItalian
- תקווהHebrew
- bihêvî, umêdewar, hêvîdar, هیوادارKurdish
- cum spe,Latin
- hoopvol, hoopgevendDutch
- håpeNorwegian
- многообещающийRussian
- rajoSomali
- hoppfull, hoppingivandeSwedish
- umutluTurkish
- обнадійливийUkrainian
- پرامیدUrdu
- 有希望Chinese
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