Synonyms for Hopeful:

• adj.

  •Panglossian (adjective)
  • looking the bright side,
  • looking bright side,
  • looking through rosecolored glasses,
  • looking through rose colored glasses.
  •all (adjective)
  • bright,
  • hopeful,
  • promising.
  •ambitious (adjective)
  • hard ball,
  • ball of fire,
  • get up and go,
  • fireball,
  • High-reaching,
  • go getter,
  • goal-oriented,
  • bent upon,
  • power-loving,
  • inspired,
  • self-starting,
  • thirsty,
  • come on strong.
  •auspicious (adjective)
  • welltimed.
  •believable (adjective)
  • convincing.
  •bright (adjective)
  • encouraging.
  •cheerful (adjective)
  • perky,
  • chirpy,
  • zappy,
  • heartiest,
  • upbeat,
  • hilarious,
  • in good spirits,
  • sunny side up,
  • zingy,
  • gladsome,
  • snappy,
  • chirpiest,
  • full of pep,
  • chirpier,
  • in high spirits.
  •confident (adjective)
  • in-trepid,
  • self sufficient,
  • pre sumptuous,
  • self reliant,
  • selfsufficient,
  • un afraid,
  • un-daunted,
  • pre-sumptuous,
  • self assured,
  • more racked,
  • Racked,
  • up pity,
  • un-afraid,
  • puffed up,
  • up-pity,
  • un daunted,
  • fearless,
  • most intrepid,
  • most racked,
  • in trepid,
  • selfassured,
  • selfreliant.
  •convincing (adjective)
  • valid,
  • most telling,
  • more telling,
  • in-controvertible,
  • re-liablest,
  • more reasonable,
  • re-liabler,
  • most swaying,
  • more believeable,
  • re liabler,
  • faithful,
  • in controvertible,
  • more valid,
  • more swaying,
  • most believeable,
  • re liable,
  • re-liable,
  • re liablest,
  • impressive.
  •desirous (adjective)
  • covetous,
  • yearning,
  • passionate,
  • amorous,
  • fond,
  • itching,
  • eager,
  • greedy,
  • hungry,
  • wishful,
  • Thirsting,
  • longing,
  • ardent,
  • urgent,
  • grasping,
  • needful,
  • Lusting,
  • acquisitive,
  • desirous,
  • hankering.
  •encouraged (adjective)
  • more aided,
  • more roused,
  • more emboldened,
  • most aided,
  • in spirited,
  • more inspirited,
  • more enlivened,
  • most roused,
  • most enlivened,
  • in-spirited,
  • most cheered,
  • most inspirited,
  • most emboldened,
  • more cheered.
  •encouraging (adjective)
  • more supportive.
  •expectant (adjective)
  • more waiting,
  • most waiting,
  • raring,
  • pre pared,
  • pre-pared.
  •favorable (adjective)
  • most reassuring,
  • more convenient,
  • more reassuring,
  • full of promise,
  • re-assuring,
  • full promise,
  • most toward,
  • more toward,
  • most pleasureful,
  • more pleasureful,
  • re assuring.
  •fortunate (adjective)
  • providential,
  • get a break,
  • in luck,
  • born with a silver spoon,
  • more fortunate,
  • sunny side,
  • healthy,
  • in the gravy.
  •gravid (adjective)
  • with ch,
  • in a family way.
  •hopeful (adjective)
  • trusting,
  • sure.
  •lucky (adjective)
  • everything going,
  • striking it rich,
  • striking rich,
  • coming roses,
  • on streak,
  • in groove,
  • in to something,
  • on a streak,
  • getting break,
  • hit big,
  • more serendipitous,
  • most serendipitous.
  •optimistic (adjective)
  • keeping faith,
  • on top world,
  • ray sunshine.
  •Other relevant words: (adjective)
  • cheerful,
  • on tenterhooks,
  • serendipitous,
  • bet on,
  • rose-colored,
  • coming up roses,
  • in the groove,
  • in suspense,
  • dexter,
  • sanguine,
  • heartening,
  • roseate,
  • all systems go,
  • hit it big,
  • locked on,
  • utopian,
  • anticipant,
  • confident,
  • possible,
  • pregnant,
  • looking on the bright side,
  • would-be,
  • at ease,
  • secure,
  • well timed,
  • lucky,
  • propitious,
  • having faith in,
  • holding aces,
  • cheering,
  • fortunate,
  • with bated breath,
  • ideological,
  • pleasureful,
  • anticipative,
  • pie-in-the-sky,
  • getting a break,
  • on top of world,
  • looking through rose-colored glasses,
  • optimistic,
  • looking on bright side,
  • looking for,
  • into something,
  • ambitious,
  • expectant,
  • encouraged,
  • favorable,
  • pinker,
  • auspicious,
  • keeping the faith,
  • anticipatory,
  • believeable,
  • pinkest.
  •possible (adjective)
  • realizable,
  • no sweat,
  • hypothetical,
  • cincher,
  • imaginable,
  • can do,
  • within reach,
  • doable,
  • snapper.
  •pregnant (adjective)
  • preggers,
  • replete,
  • with child,
  • gestating,
  • carrying a child,
  • in family way,
  • parous.
  •promising (adjective)
  • golden.
  •promising, auspicious (adjective)
  • well-timed.
  •propitious (adjective)
  • more favoring,
  • more dexter,
  • most favoring,
  • most dexter.
  •rose-colored (adjective)
  • rosecolored,
  • rose colored.
  •sanguine (adjective)
  • Undoubtful.
  •secure (adjective)
  • more reassured,
  • most reassured,
  • most shoo in,
  • well-founded,
  • more shoo in,
  • re solute,
  • unanxious,
  • more shoo-in,
  • most shooin,
  • more unanxious,
  • in the bag,
  • shooin,
  • un-anxious,
  • well founded,
  • re-solute,
  • wellfounded,
  • in bag,
  • tried true,
  • un anxious,
  • most unanxious,
  • most shoo-in,
  • nailed down,
  • re assured,
  • on ice,
  • re-assured,
  • shoo in,
  • more shooin.
  •upbeat (adjective)
  • up beat,
  • up-beat.
  •utopian (adjective)
  • more idealist,
  • more pie-in-the-sky,
  • un feasible,
  • most fantasy,
  • most idealist,
  • more pie in the sky,
  • most pie in the sky,
  • most ideological,
  • un-feasible,
  • dreamest,
  • more ideological,
  • more fantasy,
  • most pie-in-the-sky.
  •wishful (adjective)
  • de siring,
  • more longful,
  • most longful,
  • longful,
  • most yearning,
  • more hankering,
  • more yearning,
  • most hankering,
  • de-siring,
  • more daydreaming,
  • most craving,
  • most daydreaming.
  •would-be (adjective)
  • wouldbe,
  • would be,
  • most wannabe,
  • more wannabe.

• n.

  •
  • favorite,
  • contender,
  • field,
  • entrant,
  • all-comers,
  • the competition,
  • favourite.
  •
  • joyful,
  • exhilarating,
  • satisfying,
  • heartwarming,
  • uplifting,
  • life-affirming,
  • joyous.
  •
  • seek,
  • romantic,
  • in the fond hope that,
  • visionary.
  •
  • likely,
  • help.
  •amateur (noun)
  • putterer,
  • Non-professional,
  • hopefuls,
  • probationers,
  • probationer,
  • uninitiate,
  • putterers,
  • bush leaguer,
  • novices,
  • Smatterer.
  •aspirant (noun)
  • strivers.
  •aspiring (noun)
  • aspiring.
  •candidate (noun)
  • write-ins,
  • whistlestoppers,
  • writein,
  • writeins,
  • write ins,
  • possible choices,
  • solicitants,
  • whistle stopper,
  • office seekers,
  • whistle-stoppers,
  • job-hunters,
  • handshakers,
  • officeseekers,
  • officeseeker,
  • job hunter,
  • whistle stoppers,
  • favorite sons.
  •contestant (noun)
  • team members.
  •hopeful (noun)
  • wannabee,
  • rosy.
  •Other relevant words: (noun)
  • aspirer,
  • stumpers,
  • stumper,
  • job-hunter,
  • appellants,
  • scrapper,
  • bidder,
  • appellant,
  • contesters,
  • contester,
  • favorite son,
  • wannabe,
  • office seeker,
  • seeker,
  • scrappers,
  • bidders,
  • contestant,
  • warrior,
  • postulants,
  • possible choice,
  • striver,
  • applicant,
  • battlers,
  • petitioner,
  • disputants,
  • disputant,
  • postulant,
  • applier,
  • amateur,
  • wannabes,
  • participant,
  • battler,
  • candidate,
  • nominee,
  • pothunter,
  • pothunters,
  • write-in,
  • aspirant,
  • write in,
  • team member.
  •petitioner (noun)
  • communicant,
  • claimant,
  • suitor,
  • competitor.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • hopefully,
  • idealistic,
  • forward-looking,
  • uplifted,
  • overoptimistic.
  •
  • coming.
  •
  • bullish.
  •
  • positive.
  •encouraging
  • glad.
  •Other relevant words (noun):
  • cheerfully,
  • chicken,
  • auspiciously,
  • younker,
  • little one,
  • dud,
  • exultant,
  • beneficial,
  • sanguineous,
  • blithesome,
  • exhilarated,
  • satisfied,
  • hopefulness,
  • optimistically,
  • flatter oneself,
  • comfortable,
  • convenient,
  • front-runner,
  • gay,
  • hobbledehoy,
  • fine,
  • serene,
  • lightsome,
  • Forewarned,
  • colt,
  • infant,
  • hope,
  • undisturbed,
  • caterpillar,
  • bairn,
  • millenarian,
  • elated,
  • reliable,
  • Millennialist,
  • in expectation,
  • fervid,
  • staddle,
  • Rosily,
  • tadpole,
  • blithe,
  • politician,
  • Desiring,
  • halcyon,
  • helpful,
  • pupa,
  • slip,
  • promisingly,
  • presumptive,
  • foetus,
  • happy,
  • cub,
  • calm,
  • olive branch,
  • Coveter,
  • favourable,
  • exciting,
  • expeditious,
  • Wisher,
  • ecstatic,
  • positively,
  • yearner,
  • teener,
  • pollyannaish,
  • reassuring,
  • Youngling,
  • nymph,
  • nice,
  • optimist,
  • expectation,
  • probable,
  • agape,
  • junior,
  • shoo-in,
  • comforting,
  • cheery,
  • lad,
  • rousing,
  • nestling,
  • liable,
  • flushed,
  • larva,
  • vista,
  • enthusiastic,
  • elf,
  • prospective,
  • happily,
  • apprehensive,
  • collector,
  • lobbyist,
  • easy,
  • presumable,
  • chipper,
  • Panglossian,
  • expectantly,
  • radiant,
  • teenager,
  • reassuringly,
  • all agog,
  • hoper,
  • be fond of,
  • brightly,
  • flattering,
  • content,
  • be hopeful,
  • rapturous,
  • Undespairing,
  • certain,
  • burnished,
  • glowing,
  • inspiriting,
  • juvenile,
  • blooming,
  • in good heart,
  • unsurprised,
  • buoyed up,
  • panorama,
  • lover,
  • like,
  • predictable,
  • boy,
  • Buoyed,
  • promiseful,
  • be expected,
  • forearmed,
  • scion,
  • perfectionist,
  • seedling,
  • beaming,
  • youngster,
  • keen,
  • anxious,
  • delighted,
  • younger,
  • bouncing,
  • jolly,
  • millennian,
  • rhapsodic,
  • boon,
  • odds-on,
  • schoolboy,
  • trustful,
  • sap,
  • Codlin,
  • zealous,
  • cadet,
  • ready,
  • callow,
  • child,
  • emboldened,
  • Chiliast,
  • buoyant,
  • Awaiting,
  • stripling,
  • long shot,
  • jocund,
  • forestalling,
  • parturient,
  • Perfectibilist,
  • fancier,
  • vivid,
  • sprig,
  • sparkling,
  • assured,
  • lamb,
  • fledgling,
  • youth,
  • sunny,
  • suitable,
  • riant,
  • exalted,
  • pleasant,
  • agog,
  • reassured,
  • gaping,
  • brat,
  • fortifying,
  • high,
  • encouragingly,
  • baby,
  • fair,
  • watching for,
  • dark horse,
  • aspect,
  • Aurelia,
  • eagerly,
  • genial,
  • Bantling,
  • conducive,
  • calf,
  • Arousing,
  • fortunately,
  • whelp,
  • take heart,
  • not surprised,
  • buoyantly,
  • fit,
  • office-seeker,
  • Anticipating,
  • Whipster,
  • mirthful,
  • youngest,
  • supporter,
  • Toward,
  • minor,
  • codling,
  • freak,
  • prepared,
  • in the cards,
  • sapling,
  • kitten,
  • up-and-coming,
  • credible,
  • Hoping,
  • Cheeringly,
  • inspiring,
  • reasonable,
  • looking,
  • confidently,
  • Expecting,
  • addict,
  • pubescent,
  • wanter,
  • pup,
  • young person,
  • teenybopper,
  • party hack,
  • whippersnapper,
  • smiling,
  • lighthearted,
  • Heartsome,
  • contributor,
  • backer,
  • hankerer,
  • foreseeable,
  • Nympha,
  • good,
  • adolescent,
  • lively,
  • votary,
  • Inspirited,
  • waiting for,
  • master,
  • campaigner,
  • pickaninny,
  • in prospect,
  • interviewee,
  • elating,
  • Eupeptic,
  • enlivening,
  • ray of sunshine,
  • Solicitant,
  • opportune,
  • in anticipation,
  • favored,
  • advantageous,
  • activist,
  • devotee,
  • delight in,
  • also-ran,
  • gracious,
  • budding,
  • fry,
  • apt,
  • orphan,
  • looking forward to,
  • gravid,
  • lambkin,
  • unflagging,
  • merry,
  • Desirer,
  • watchful,
  • laughing,
  • irrepressible,
  • in hopes,
  • blissful,
  • verisimilar,
  • calming,
  • pleasing,
  • foal,
  • timely,
  • euphoric,
  • cocoon,
  • friendly,
  • tendril,
  • stalking-horse,
  • chrysalis,
  • running mate,
  • urchin,
  • pullet,
  • Whiffet,
  • stirring,
  • chit,
  • palmy,
  • waiting,
  • juvenal,
  • bright and sunny,
  • winsome,
  • callant.

Paraphrases for Hopeful:

• Forward Entailment

  • Proper noun, singular
    hope, hopes.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    hope.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    hopeless, heartening, positive, convinced.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    expectation, front-runner.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    confident, encouraging, bullish, sanguine, optimistic, candidate.
  • Proper noun, singular
    optimistic.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    candidate, nominee.

Antonyms for Hopeful:

• adj.

  • all
    hopeless.
  • optimistic, expectant
    low, down, disinterested, pointless, discouraged, sad, despondent, unenthusiastic, upset, depressed, gloomy, pessimistic, desperate, wretched, pale, heavy, despairing, apathetic, inauspicious, unhappy, fearful.
  • promising, auspicious
    dark, implausible, unfriendly, mean, nasty, hateful, rainy, poor, unpleasant, bad, disagreeable, cloudy, stormy.
  • Other antonyms:
    disheartening, grim, unlikely, dubious, uncertain, discouraging, ruinous, unpropitious, unfavorable, negative, doubtful, unencouraging, unpromising, unlucky, threatening.