hope

1. 1.

   expect and wish

   “I trust you will behave better from now on”

   “I hope she understands that she cannot expect a raise”

   Synonymstrustdesire

   Broaderwish
2. 2.

   be optimistic; be full of hope; have hopes

   “I am still hoping that all will turn out well”

   Antonymsdespair

   Broaderdesire
3. 3.

   intend with some possibility of fulfilment

   “I hope to have finished this work by tomorrow evening”

   Synonymsgo for

   Broaderplan

Other forms of hope

plural

hopes·

past tense

hoped·

present participle

hoping·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about hope

What does hope mean?

hope means "a specific instance of feeling hopeful". That is the primary sense; the word has 9 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in hope?

hope has 1 syllable: hope. In IPA it is /ˈhoʊp/.

What is another word for hope?

Close synonyms include promise, Bob Hope, Leslie Townes Hope, trust, desire. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of hope?

The recorded antonyms are despair, despair.

Is hope a common word?

hope is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.