Antonym: hopeless. Similar words: hopefully, hope, forceful, doleful, ruefully, graceful, grateful, to the full. Meaning: ['həʊpfʊl] n. an ambitious and aspiring young person. adj. 1. having or manifesting or inspiring hope 2. presaging good fortune.
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61 I dropped to the floor, hopeful I had found a gap in the defences, and stopped dead.
62 One is no longer the hopeful or the despairing guest: one is host in the house of oneself.
63 Cap Cities executives said they were hopeful approval would come in a couple of weeks.
64 The introduction of girls into cathedral choirs and the continuing vitality of choir schools are also hopeful signs for the future.
65 Now, he is hopeful that the child will have a normal lifespan.
66 Despite such findings, research still largely bears out the hopeful assumptions that have guided practitioners like Abed and Yunus.
67 At best it might produce recommendations for new and hopeful initiatives.
68 Still, I've been through the trade directory and come up with something a bit more hopeful.
69 The spirit is slightly more hopeful and the sound a lot brighter.
70 Feeling hopeful rather than confident, Kirov lay back on his cot and fell into a deep sleep.
71 Richie, the youngest at 15, was in the throes of GCSEs and hopeful of a career in graphic design.
72 The local police are hopeful of catching those responsible for the graffiti.
73 Now the 27-year-old accountant is hopeful of surpassing even that with victory over Cork next Sunday in Croke Park.
74 Tender invitations were issued, and the railway was hopeful of awarding a contract by the end of last year.
75 The president appears tired but hopeful as the final stages of the negotiations begin today.
76 But there is a more hopeful side to the subject of global population as well.
77 Dunwoody is hopeful of returning to the racecourse next Tuesday following his lay-off because of a broken bone in his right hand.
78 At the interview they told me I was "the right sort of person'. I thought that sounded kind of hopeful.
79 At present it seems likely that the most hopeful approaches rest in three areas.
80 And with the theatre running into difficulties about subsidy it's not getting any more hopeful.
81 Ward has been searching for a winger for some time and last night he was hopeful of clinching a signing on loan.
82 Green Believers must quicken these connections. Green consumerism is a hopeful token of more substantial change.
83 My flaky judgments were modest by comparison-but numerous enough to keep me hopeful of regaining the dunce cap this year.
84 The fact that the two sides have agreed to hold negotiations is an extremely hopeful sign.
85 Green consumerism is a hopeful token of more substantial change.
86 The early 1960s were a hopeful time,[www.Sentencedict.com] and it was then that California devised its system of higher education.
87 But her agent said she was still hopeful of defending her Wimbledon title.
88 There was something a bit comical about the hopeful freckled face, but something sad too.
89 Daisy, ever hopeful and optimistic, however, still made heroic efforts to win Perdita round.
90 Your generation is very selfish. They don’t want India for its Ganga, but for their economic pride and self-respect. I’m hopeful because the chaos and crisis has reached a saturation point. This is our only chance. If it goes down a little bit more, then there is no scope. The youngsters have to realise that things are in their hands now. Gulzar
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