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hopeful

[hohp-fuhl]

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adjective

full of hope; expressing hope: His hopeful words stimulated optimism.

exciting hope; promising advantage or success: a hopeful prospect.

noun

a person who shows promise or aspires to success: the Democratic presidential hopeful.

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So is ninnyhammer. Does it mean:

a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

a fool or simpleton; ninny.

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Origin:
1560–70; hope + -ful

Related forms

hope·ful·ness, noun

un·hope·ful, adjective

un·hope·ful·ly, adverb

Synonyms
1. expectant; sanguine, optimistic, confident.

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Example Sentences

The more religious a person, the more hopeful he or she is likely to be.

Amid trepidation, the new regime is making a remarkably hopeful start.

Ciochon is hopeful that additional fossils will reveal whether the pygmy giant panda had the same unusual adaptation.

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The more religious a person, the more hopeful he or she is likely to be.

Amid trepidation, the new regime is making a remarkably hopeful start.

Ciochon is hopeful that additional fossils will reveal whether the pygmy giant panda had the same unusual adaptation.

But it looks hopeful for the uses described, anyway.

Armed with such logic, a coalition of the hopeful is trying to buck the rude trend, even to reverse it.

Bush's campaign isn't going over too well with the presidential hopeful.

Nonprofit officials say they are hopeful that the stock.

It was a rare and hopeful gesture for two countries usually plagued by mutual suspicion.

Harris is hopeful the efforts will result in measures that maintain a steady supply of fish for the penguins.

Things do look more hopeful for this utility-scale solar thermal project.

Fascinating and hopeful research in shedding light on poor social functioning.

Still, economists are hopeful the economy will rebound in the second half of next year.

As every hopeful contributor knows, there are variations within even this evaluative system.

Yet hopeful initiatives do exist among those truly fed up with corruption.

Relatives of the missing are hopeful more can be found.

But the community is depressed because we're seeing no hopeful route to success.

And despite hours of hopeful waiting, the dough never rose.

But that totally delivered the fun and made me even more hopeful about the rest of the stuff.

The thought of what these young people are going to do with their lives is so exciting and hopeful.

Instead, he remains hopeful that it's not too late to do something about it.

Speculation ranges from the hopeful to the dystopian.

The image captures the loneliness of homesteads once inhabited by hopeful pioneers.

One speaker was slightly less hopeful about collaborative work across the four fields.

Researchers are more hopeful for a repellent based on chemicals extracted and purified from dead sharks.

The group's adult leader will turn his or her tired but battle-tested and hopeful face toward you.

Be hopeful about your job search, but be realistic as well.

It looks great, is comfortable, and the durability makes him hopeful that this backpack will be long-lasting.

Compton, the prison physician, is still hopeful of the patient's recovery.

Smits is hopeful that some of this money will be devoted to preserving the rainforests that are home to orangutans.

These relics were built by hopeful human engineers.

Their results are surprising, and paint a surprisingly hopeful picture.

If politicians don't do more to help, the hopeful job numbers won't last.

Hopeful applicants labor over every word, straining to set themselves apart through.

Since then its progress has been remarkably hopeful.

For example, hopeful mothers taking clomiphene citrate.

But he was hopeful that stockpiling the pads to have on hand in case of an accident could help contain future spills quickly.

The healing process is far from complete, but there are hopeful signs.

But control operators are hopeful they can keep it running for another couple of years.

When he came into office, he was hopeful that he could orchestrate a peace treaty before the end of his first term.

The duo carried digital recorders and posed as hopeful inductees making a student film.

The vicissitudes of both the economy and the job market mean that many hopeful graduate students will not have such good fortune.

But those who discern an opening for a more hopeful future, even a glimmer of outright resolution, have always been proved wrong.

Africa both indicated the world can change and that is hopeful in our current times.

Kovalchuk is even hopeful that nanotech will find the magic bullet to make all carbon-based fuels obsolete: fusion power.

It's strangely comforting--since the discouraging lyrics are matched with pretty hopeful feeling music.

Wildlife experts are hopeful that their natural instincts will prevail and that they will join with other lions to form prides.

No small element in the white man's magic is the hopeful message sent abroad by his missionaries:.

Other scientists remained hopeful that the service might return in better times.

Another reason for reformers to be hopeful is the sheer political clout they have.

Beg is hopeful that his grandchildren will escape his fate, he believes they're not yet addicted.

For both reasons we've needed a change for a long time, it's hopeful we'll see it soon.

I'd appreciate any rational and hopeful voice that'll give me a different perspective.

Yet the peace process will not recommence in its former hopeful place.

They are hopeful that these strange bugs will divulge secrets about how early insects lived-and about modern insect diversity.

The hopeful news is that the educational system may finally be poised for change.

But it would not restart at its former hopeful point.

And they're hopeful they can survive in that range again.

Tell your story and be hopeful that you live a long and cancer-free life.

Nor, despite hopeful talk to the contrary, is there much prospect of an experiment being devised.

There is no single model for how to manage rapid urbanization, but there are hopeful examples.

But for the moment the political signs are not hopeful.

Applied hope comes from taking specific actions and making specific choices that create a world worth being hopeful about.

But identifying deflation as a big problem is a hopeful sign.

Dogs are always hopeful the human will get it, will choose a way, and will stick to it.

Even so, reformers can take some heart from a couple of hopeful signs.

On a hopeful return later that afternoon the line had mercifully disappeared.

He was hopeful that more of these forests would find real protection soon.

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hopeful (ˈhəʊpfʊl)

—*adj*
1.	having or expressing hope
2.	giving or inspiring hope; promising

—n
3.	a person considered to be on the brink of success (esp in the phrase a young hopeful)

'hopefulness

—n

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