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.

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 saving the …

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

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

optimistic: hopeful about getting into college. causing a feeling of hope: The new pitcher is a hopeful prospect. a person who wants to be a success: major league hopefuls. expressing hope: His hopeful …

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

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 happen.

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

hopeful adjective (SOMETHING) If something is hopeful, it makes you feel that what you want to happen will happen: