Hope

Noun

 * 1)  The belief or expectation that something wished for can or will happen.
 * 2)  The actual thing wished for
 * 3)  A person or thing that is a source of hope

Verb

 * 1) to want something to happen.
 * 2) to be optimistic; be full of hope; have hopes
 * 3) to expect and wish

Adjectives for Hope
ardent; debarred; lingering; honest; deathless; best; sustaining; tremendous; awakened; buried; presumptuous; unearthly; fond; sole; latent; fiery; buoyant; visionary; absurd; unacknowledged; dead; darkened; false; trusting; unbounded; flowering; roseate; strained; sanguine; groveling; unraveled; indefatigable; twin-born; beautiful; inexperienced; baffled; extravagant; winged; frustrated; high-hearted; generous; departing; dauntless; quenchless; ripening; pale-cheeked; blighted; reverent; perfect; deceptive; patient; half-revealed; smallest; wildest; renewed; gray-haired; inspiriting; troublous; faltering; bursting; dazzling; holy; glorious; wandering; reactionary; lingering; flickering; dying; ardent; heart-felt; improbable; ruined; faded; freshening; blasted; fair; reasonable; trembling; Increasing; slender; toppling; absolute; indefinite; dull; atrocious; vague; half-rallied; fruitless; parched; fervent; unchristian; untransmitted; histrionic; definite; decaying; broken; submissive; withered; forlorn; confident; earthly; full; fluttering; savage; pure; budding; tranquil; ultimate; shattered; vague; dreamy; inhaling; celestial; boundless; barren; thrilling; stubborn; ambitious; tortured; dear; flattering; sweet; delusive; feeble; troubled; hovering; unworthy; impossible; natural; blessed; disappointed; prophetic; bright; raised; vain; realized; fallacious; dawning; gaudy; vulgar; future; delicious; exultant; brilliant; odious; perpetuating; latent; polite; desperate; famished; appointed; rekindled; reck¬less; improbable; countless (plural); yearning; feverish; joyous; sleeping; pathetic; obedient; spacious; intenser; perpetual; confiding; remote; innocent; grim; philosophic; cheerful; unheeded; supreme; trusting; undying; abandoned; inconsistent; earnest; greedy; blossoming.

Verbs for Hope
attain—; base—on; blast—; blight—; center—s in; cherish—; cling to—; console with—; crush—s; culminate in—; dash—s; defer—; delude with—; discourage—;divest of—; entertain—; exaggerate—; fall from—; falsify—; flush with—; frustrate—; fulfill—; hatch—; hold out—; impart—; infuse—; inspire—; justify—; kindle—; pin —s on; prompt—; relinquish—; restore—; rouse—; splinter—; stimulate—; substantiate—; undermine—; voice—; —blossoms; —collapses; —deserts; —exalts; —flickers; —glimmers; —is born; —leaps high; — lingers; —looms; —mounts; —perks up; —sinks; —springs; —stirs; —vanishes; — wanes; realize—.

Adverbs for Hope
vainly; fervidly; philosophically; optimistically; piously; fondly; desperately; fervently; devoutly; irresistibly; ardently; deathlessly; presumptuously; reverently; fallaciously; fruitlessly.

Synonyms for Hope
confidence, expectation, trust, belief, assurance, desire, anticipation, prospect, aspiration, optimism, presumption, reliance, assumption.

Antonyms for Hope
hopelessness, despair, despondency, dejection, pessimism, depression, low spirits, gloom, sadness, disbelief, discouragement, disappointment, fear.

Derived terms

 * Cape of Good Hope
 * forlorn hope
 * great white hope
 * have one's hope dashed
 * hope against hope
 * hope chest
 * hopeful
 * hopeless
 * hoper
 * no-hoper
 * out of hope
 * hoped for

Thesaurus
aspire, desire, expect, look forward, want, fantasy, feel confident, forbidden fruit, foresee, foretell, fortitude, gape for, glimmering goal, golden vision, good chance, good possibility, hankering, harbor the hope, have in mind, hone for, hope against hope, hope and pray, hope for, hope in, hope to God, horme, intellectual curiosity, itch for, justice, languish for, last resort, lean upon, libido, lie ahead, likelihood, live in hopes, lodestone, long for, longing, look, look for, look forward to, loom, love, lust for, lust for learning, magnet, mind, natural virtues, near, need, nurture the hope, off chance, optimism, outside chance, outside hope, pant for, passion, pine for, pis aller, plan, pleasure, pleasure principle, plot, plum, possibility, potential, potentiality, predict, presume, prize, probability, project, promise, prophesy, prospect, prudence, reception, recourse, reliance, reliance on, rely on, remote possibility, resort, resource, rest assured, sanguine expectation, security, sexual desire, sigh for, small hope, spoil for, stock, store, supernatural virtues, sureness, surety, suspension of disbelief, take for granted, temperance, temptation, the attainable, the feasible, the possible, theological virtues, think, thinkability, thirst for, thirst for knowledge, threaten, trophy, trust, urge, virtuality, wait, want, wanting, weary for, what is possible, what may be, what might be, will, will and pleasure, wish, wish for, wish fulfillment, yearn for, yearning, yen for, acceptation, acception, ache for, acquiescence, ambition, anticipate, anticipation, approach, ardor, aspire, aspire to, assumption, assurance, assuredness, await, bank on, bare possibility, be destined, be dying for, be fated, be hurting for, be imminent, be to be, be to come, belief, cardinal virtues, catch, certainty, chance, charity, cheerful expectation, clamor for, come, come on, conceivability, concupiscence, confide, confidence, contemplate, contingency, conviction, count, count on, craving, credence, credit, credulity, cry for, curiosity, daydream, dearest wish, dependence, desideration, desideratum, desire, draw near, draw on, dread, drive, eagerness, envisage, even chance, eventuality, expect, expectancy, expectation, expedient, face, faith, fancy,

Etymology

 * 1)  hopa:.
 * 2) From  hopen:, from  hopian:.

Noun

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic:
 * Aramaic:
 * Armenian: հույս (huys)
 * Belarusian: надзея
 * Bosnian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: hoop de
 * Estonian:
 * Ewe: mɔkpɔkpɔ
 * Faroese: vón
 * Filipino: pag-asa
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Georgian: (imedi)
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Haitian Creole:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:, उम्मीद
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Interlingua: sperantia
 * Irish: dóchas
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Kazakh: үміт
 * Korean: 바램,


 * Kurdish: ئومێد, هیوا
 * Latin: ,
 * Latvian: cerība
 * Lithuanian: viltis
 * Luxembourgish: Hoffnung
 * Macedonian: надеж
 * Malay:
 * Norwegian:
 * Old Provençal:
 * Old Prussian: nadruwīsnā
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: speranţă, nădejde
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: dòchas, dùil , sùil
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: нада
 * Roman: nada
 * Slovak: nádej
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: pag-asa
 * Tajik:
 * Thai: ความหวัง
 * Turkish: ,
 * Ukrainian: надія
 * Urdu: امید, آشا
 * Vietnamese:
 * Welsh: gobaith
 * West Frisian: hope


 * Albanian:
 * Armenian: հույս (huys)
 * Bosnian:
 * Chinese: 愿望 (yuànwàng)
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: hoop de
 * Estonian:
 * Ewe: mɔkpɔkpɔ
 * Faroese: vón
 * Filipino: pag-asa, inaasahan
 * Finnish:
 * French: espoir
 * German:
 * Hebrew:
 * Icelandic:
 * Interlingua: sperantia
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 希望 (きぼう, kibō), 願望 (がんぼう, ganbō)
 * Korean: 바램 (baraem), 희망 (希望, huimang)
 * Latin:


 * Latvian: cerība
 * Lithuanian: viltis
 * Luxembourgish: Hoffnung
 * Macedonian: надеж
 * Malay: harapan
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: speranţă, nădejde
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: dòchas, dùil , sùil
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: нада
 * Roman: nada
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: hopp, förhoppning
 * Tagalog: pag-asa, inaasahan
 * Turkish: ,
 * Ukrainian: надія (nadija)
 * Vietnamese: nguồn hy vọng

Verb

 * Afrikaans: hoop
 * Albanian:
 * Arabic:
 * Egyptian Arabic:
 * Armenian:
 * Bosnian: nadati (se)
 * Catalan: esperar
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Croatian: nadati (se)
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: आशा करना
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:, gera sér vonir um
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Interlingua: sperar
 * Irish: bí ag súil, bí i ndóchas
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 希望する, 望む


 * Korean: 바라다, 원하다
 * Latin:
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian:, , tikėtis
 * Luxembourgish: hoffen
 * Macedonian: се надева
 * Norwegian:
 * Novial: espera
 * Persian: امیدوار بودن
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: a spera
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: надати (се)
 * Roman: nadati (se)
 * Slovak: dúfať
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: asa, pag-asa, umasa, asahan
 * Telugu: ఆశించు (aaSiMchu)
 * Turkish:, ,
 * Vietnamese: (希望)
 * Welsh: gobeithio
 * West Frisian: hoopje

Noun

 * 1) waist
 * 2) hip (ringa hope)

Noun
( hopen)


 * 1) hope