Thesaurus: hopeful

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1. a. Full of hope, or agreeable expectation; inclined to hope; expectant.
2. a. Having qualities which excite hope; affording promise of good or of success; as, a hopeful youth; a hopeful prospect.
3. adj. having or manifesting hope
4. adj. likely to turn out well in the future
5. n. an ambitious and aspiring young person
6. 1. Full of hope, or agreeable expectation; inclined to hope; expectant. Men of their own natural inclination hopeful and strongly conceited. Hooker. 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.
7. j:91/n:9 a. having or manifesting hope