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hopeful

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of hopeful

1 having qualities which inspire hope

  • economists are offering a hopeful forecast for a healthy economy in the coming year
Synonyms of hopeful

auspicious, bright, encouraging, fair, golden, heartening, likely, optimistic, promising, propitious, roseate, rose-colored, rosy, upbeat
Words Related to hopeful

cheering, comforting, reassuring, soothing

assured, confident, decisive, doubtless, positive, sure, unhesitating

beamish, bullish, eupeptic

favorable, good
Near Antonyms of hopeful

cheerless, comfortless

doubtful, dubious, uncertain

bearish, grim, negative, unfavorable

funereal, glum, gray (also grey), miserable, wretched
Antonyms of hopeful

bleak, dark, depressing, desperate, discouraging, disheartening, dismal, downbeat, dreary, gloomy, hopeless, inauspicious, pessimistic, unencouraging, unlikely, unpromising, unpropitious

2 pointing toward a happy outcome

  • in a hopeful response to the ad, several people called to say theyʼd seen our lost cat
Synonyms of hopeful

auspicious, bright, encouraging, favorable, golden, heartening, promising, propitious
Words Related to hopeful

fortunate, fortuitous, happy, lucky, providential

advantageous, beneficial, profitable, prosperous, salutary
Near Antonyms of hopeful

unfortunate, unhappy, unlucky

calamitous, catastrophic, disastrous, fatal, ruinous

baleful, dark, dire, direful, doomy, foreboding, gloomy, ill, ill-boding, menacing, minatory, ominous, portentous, sinister, threatening
Antonyms of hopeful

dim, discouraging, disheartening, futureless, hopeless, inauspicious, unfavorable, unpromising, unpropitious

hopeful

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of hopeful

one who seeks an office, honor, position, or award

  • the three mayoral hopefuls are going to debate on local TV
Synonyms of hopeful

applicant, applier, aspirant, campaigner, candidate, contender, expectant, prospect, seeker
Words Related to hopeful

competitor, contestant, entrant, entry, favorite, qualifier

dark horse, spoiler, stalking horse

crown prince, favorite son

claimant, pretender

nominee, running mate
Near Antonyms of hopeful

incumbent, officeholder

awardee, honoree, inductee

dropout
Antonyms of hopeful

noncandidate

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