'Hopeful' definitions:
Definition of 'hopeful'
From: WordNet
adjective
Having or manifesting hope; "a line of people hopeful of obtaining tickets"; "found a hopeful way of attacking the problem" [ant: hopeless]
adjective
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, hopeful, promising]
noun
Definition of 'Hopeful'
From: GCIDE
- Hopeful \Hope"ful\, a.
- 1. Full of hope, or agreeable expectation; inclined to hope; expectant. [1913 Webster]
- Men of their own natural inclination hopeful and strongly conceited. --Hooker. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'hopeful'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- addict,
- adolescent,
- advantageous,
- agape,
- agog,
- all agog,
- also-ran,
- anticipant,
- anticipating,
- anticipative,
- anticipatory,
- applicant,
- apt,
- aspirant,
- aspirer,
- aspiring,
- assured,
- auspicious,
- awaiting,
- baby,
- baby kisser,
- beaming,
- blithe,
- blithesome,
- bright,
- bright and sunny,
- budding,
- candidate,
- certain,
- cheerful,
- cheering,
- cheery,
- chiliast,
- collector,
- confident,
- content,
- couleur de rose,
- coveter,
- dark horse,
- defeated candidate,
- desirer,
- devotee,
- dud,
- eager,
- easy,
- elated,
- encouraging,
- eupeptic,
- euphoric,
- exalted,
- exhilarated,
- expectant,
- expecting,
- fair,
- fancier,
- favorite son,
- fledgling,
- flushed,
- fond,
- forearmed,
- foreseeable,
- forestalling,
- forewarned,
- freak,
- full of hope,
- gaping,
- genial,
- glad,
- gladsome,
- glowing,
- golden,
- halcyon,
- hankerer,
- happy,
- heartening,
- high,
- hoper,
- hoping,
- in anticipation,
- in expectation,
- in good heart,
- in good spirits,
- in high spirits,
- in hopes,
- in the cards,
- infant,
- inspiriting,
- irrepressible,
- irrepressible optimist,
- junior,
- juvenal,
- juvenile,
- lame duck,
- laughing,
- Leibnizian optimist,
- liable,
- likely,
- looking for,
- looking forward to,
- lover,
- millenarian,
- millennialist,
- millennian,
- minor,
- not surprised,
- odds-on,
- of good cheer,
- of good hope,
- office seeker,
- optimist,
- optimistic,
- perfectibilist,
- perfectibilitarian,
- perfectionist,
- philosophical optimist,
- pleasant,
- political hopeful,
- Pollyanna,
- predictable,
- predictable within limits,
- prepared,
- presidential timber,
- presumable,
- presumptive,
- probable,
- promising,
- propitious,
- pubescent,
- radiant,
- ray of sunshine,
- ready,
- reassuring,
- riant,
- rose-colored,
- roseate,
- rosy,
- running mate,
- sanguine,
- sanguineous,
- sapling,
- satisfied,
- secure,
- seeker,
- slip,
- smiling,
- solicitant,
- sparkling,
- sprig,
- stalking-horse,
- statistically probable,
- stripling,
- suitor,
- sunny,
- sure,
- teenager,
- teener,
- teenybopper,
- undespairing,
- undisturbed,
- unsurprised,
- up-and-coming,
- upbeat,
- utopian,
- verisimilar,
- votary,
- waiting,
- waiting for,
- wanter,
- watching for,
- winsome,
- wisher,
- yearner,
- young hopeful,
- young person,
- younger,
- youngest,
- youngling,
- youngster,
- youth
Words containing 'Hopeful'
- Hope,
- Hope, IN,
- Hoped,
- Hopefully,
- Hopefulness,
- Hoping,
- Hopingly,
- hoped for,
- A forlorn hope,
- East Hope,
- Glen Hope,
- Good Hope,
- Hope Mills,
- Hope Valley,
- Hope, AK,
- Hope, AR,
- Hope, ID,
- Hope, KS,
- Hope, ND,
- Hope, NM,
- Isle of Hope,
- Mount Hope,
- New Hope,
- Pleasant Hope,
- Point Hope,
- Port Hope,
- Spring Hope,
- bob hope,
- dashed hope,
- dashing hopes,
- forlorn hope,
- hope chest,
- hoped-for,
- white hope,
- East Hope, ID,
- Glen Hope, PA,
- Good Hope, AL,
- Good Hope, GA,
- Good Hope, IL,
- Hope Mills, NC,
- Hope Valley, RI,
- Isle of Hope, GA,
- Mount Hope, KS,
- Mount Hope, WI,
- Mount Hope, WV,
- New Hope, AL,
- New Hope, MN,
- New Hope, MS,
- New Hope, PA,
- New Hope, TN,
- New Hope, TX,
- Pleasant Hope, MO,
- Point Hope, AK,
- Port Hope, MI,
- Reid Hope King,
- Spring Hope, NC,
- cape of good hope,
- great white hope,
- john hope franklin,
- leslie townes hope,
- Reid Hope King, TX,
- cape of good hope province