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–adjective
1. | full of hope; expressing hope: His hopeful words stimulated optimism. |
2. | exciting hope; promising advantage or success: a hopeful prospect. |
–noun
3. | a person who shows promise or aspires to success: the Democratic presidential hopeful. |
Related forms:
hope⋅ful⋅ness, noun
Synonyms:
1. expectant; sanguine, optimistic, confident.
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hope·ful
n. A person who aspires to success or who shows promise of succeeding, especially as a political candidate: a group of presidential hopefuls. |
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2006 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Hopeful
Hope"ful\, a. 1. Full of hope, or agreeable expectation; inclined to hope; expectant.
Men of their own natural inclination hopeful and strongly conceited. --Hooker.
2. Having qualities which excite hope; affording promise of good or of success; as, a hopeful youth; a hopeful prospect. "Hopeful scholars." --Addison. -- Hope"ful*ly, adv. -- Hope"ful*ness, n.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Language Translation for : hopeful
Spanish: | optimista, lleno de esperanza, | German: | hoffnungsvoll, |
Japanese: | 期待して |
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1. | having or manifesting hope; "a line of people hopeful of obtaining tickets"; "found a hopeful way of attacking the problem" [ant: hopeless] |
2. | 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" [syn: bright] |
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1. | an ambitious and aspiring young person; "a lofty aspirant"; "two executive hopefuls joined the firm"; "the audience was full of Madonna wannabes" [syn: aspirant] |
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