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Adjective hopeful has 2 senses
- hopeful - having or manifesting or inspiring hope; "a line of people hopeful of obtaining tickets"; "found a hopeful way of attacking the problem"
Antonyms: hopeless, abject, resigned, unhopeful, black, bleak, dim, despairing, desperate, despondent, heartsick, forlorn, futureless, gloomy, grim, darkening, helpless, lost, insoluble
- fortunate, hopeful, rosy - presaging good fortune; "she made a fortunate decision to go to medical school"; "rosy predictions"
Antonyms: inauspicious, unfortunate (indirect, via auspicious)
Noun hopeful has 1 sense
- aspirant, aspirer, hopeful, wannabe, wannabee - an ambitious and aspiring young person; "a lofty aspirant"; "two executive hopefuls joined the firm"; "the audience was full of Madonna wannabes"
--1 is a kind of applicant, applier
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