Hope

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  • intransitive verb. To wish for a particular event that one considers possible.
  • intransitive verb. To have confidence; trust.
  • intransitive verb. To desire and consider possible: synonym: expect.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. The longing or desire for something accompanied by the belief in the possibility of its occurrence.
  • noun. An instance of such longing or desire.
  • noun. A source of or reason for such longing or desire.
  • noun. The theological virtue defined as the desire and search for a future good, difficult but not impossible to attain with God's help.
  • noun. Trust; confidence.
  • idiom. (hope against hope) To hope with little reason or justification.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. An inlet; a small bay; a haven.
  • To entertain or indulge an expectation of something desired.
  • To have confidence; trust with earnest expectation of good.
  • To desire with expectation; look forward to as desirable, with the expectation of obtaining: with a clause (with or without that) or, less commonly, a noun as object.
  • [Hope is also loosely used as synonymous with desire, long for, or wish.]
  • To expect; regard as likely to happen: not implying desire: with a clause as object.
  • To imagine; have an impression; think: with an effect of irony: as, I hope I know what I am talking about.
  • noun. A hollow; a valley; especially, the upper end of a narrow mountain valley when it is nearly encircled by smooth green slopes: nearly equivalent to comb.
  • noun. A mound; a hill. [Prov. Eng.] This word occurs in several place-names, as Easthope, Kirkhope, Stanhope, etc.
  • noun. Expectation of something desired; desire accompanied by expectation.
  • noun. Confidence in a future event, or in the future disposition or conduct of some person; trust, especially a high or holy trust.
  • noun. That which gives hope; one who or that which furnishes ground of expectation or promise of desired good; promise.
  • noun. The object of hope; the thing hoped for.
  • noun. Expectation, without reference to desire; prognostication.
  • noun. Synonyms Reliance, dependence.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A sloping plain between mountain ridges.
  • noun. A small bay; an inlet; a haven.
  • transitive verb. To desire with expectation or with belief in the possibility or prospect of obtaining; to look forward to as a thing desirable, with the expectation of obtaining it; to cherish hopes of.
  • transitive verb. To expect; to fear.
  • noun. A desire of some good, accompanied with an expectation of obtaining it, or a belief that it is obtainable; an expectation of something which is thought to be desirable; confidence; pleasing expectancy.
  • noun. One who, or that which, gives hope, furnishes ground of expectation, or promises desired good.
  • noun. That which is hoped for; an object of hope.
  • intransitive verb. To entertain or indulge hope; to cherish a desire of good, or of something welcome, with expectation of obtaining it or belief that it is obtainable; to expect; -- usually followed by for.
  • intransitive verb. To place confidence; to trust with confident expectation of good; -- usually followed by in.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To want something to happen.
  • verb. To be optimistic; be full of hope; have hopes.
  • verb. To expect and wish.
  • noun. The belief or expectation that something wished for can or will happen.
  • noun. The actual thing wished for.
  • noun. A person or thing that is a source of hope.
  • noun. The virtuous desire for future good.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. expect and wish
  • noun. one of the three Christian virtues
  • noun. United States comedian (born in England) who appeared in films with Bing Crosby (1903-2003)
  • noun. someone (or something) on which expectations are centered
  • noun. grounds for feeling hopeful about the future
  • verb. intend with some possibility of fulfilment
  • verb. be optimistic; be full of hope; have hopes
  • noun. the general feeling that some desire will be fulfilled
  • noun. a specific instance of feeling hopeful
  • Word Usage
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    despond  fear  hopeless  
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    Nope  Pope  bronchoscope  cope  dope  
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    hoped  hopes  hoping