The meaning of HOPEFUL is having qualities which inspire hope. How to use hopeful in a sentence.

HOPEFUL definition: 1. having hope: 2. giving hope: 3. a person who is trying to get a part in a film, play for a…. Learn more.

HOPEFUL definition: full of hope; expressing hope. See examples of hopeful used in a sentence.

If you are hopeful, you are fairly confident that something that you want to happen will happen. I am hopeful this misunderstanding will be rectified very quickly. Surgeons were hopeful of …

to want something to happen and have some reason to believe that it will or might happen.

Definition of hopeful adjective in Oxford Advanced American Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.

Hope is an optimistic state of mind that is based on an expectation of positive outcomes with respect to events and circumstances in one's own life, or the world at large. [1] As a verb, …

promising advantage or success: a hopeful prospect. n. a person who shows promise or aspires to success: the Democratic presidential hopeful. hope′ful•ness, n. 1. expectant; sanguine, …

Hopeful comes from the word hope, meaning "optimism about a future event," and the suffix -ful, meaning "full." So if you're hopeful, you're full of hope: you think something good is going to …

Synonyms for HOPEFUL: promising, optimistic, bright, encouraging, likely, upbeat, heartening, rosy; Antonyms of HOPEFUL: unlikely, desperate, pessimistic, hopeless, discouraging, dark, …