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

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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

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1. List of paraphrases for "hopeful":

   promising, optimistic, confident, encouraging, hope, upbeat

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1. Ginette Bott:

   We are hopeful that there are no more candies out there, we are in the process this morning of trying to backtrack through the one million pounds of food we received this month and trace what we can.

2. Greg Conley:

   As far as we know, there is not a meeting scheduled yet, the White House has our number, so we are hopeful that we will be included.

3. Ford Motor Co:

   We continue to prioritize the need for one national program and remain hopeful that the parties can find a solution to achieve this goal.

4. Louie Gohmert:

   After the November elections gave Republicans control of the Senate, voters made clear they wanted change, we were hopeful our leaders got the voters ’ message. However, after our speaker forced through the( spending bill) by passing it with Democratic votes and without time to read it, it seemed clear that we needed new leadership.

5. Crystal Echo Hawk:

   Martin Luther King Jr.Why taught us that racial injustice in United States started with the arrival of colonizers on Native land. The violence these settlers used first against Indigenous peoples, then against Black slaves, was predicated on White supremacist beliefs. White supremacy is upheld by false origin myths about the United States, ignored by whitewashing brutal anti-Native and anti-Black policies, and sustained by stereotyped, inaccurate portrayals of Native people and people of color in popular culture, to create a just world, all people of every race, ethnicity, sexuality, gender expression, and age, must stand together and tell truthful stories about our past and hopeful stories about our future.