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say it: HOHP-fuhl
hopeful is an adjective and noun meaning "having or manifesting hope". It carries 3 recorded senses.
having or manifesting hope
“a line of people hopeful of obtaining tickets”
“found a hopeful way of attacking the problem”
likely to turn out well in the future
“had a bright future in publishing”
“the scandal threatened an abrupt end to a promising political career”
“a hopeful new singer on Broadway”
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for hopeful come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.