Definitions for hopeful

hopeful hope·ful

Spelling: [hohp-fuh l]
IPA: /ˈhoʊp fəl/

Hopeful is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 113 anagrams from letters in hopeful (efhlopu).

Definitions for hopeful

noun

  1. a person who shows promise or aspires to success:

adjective

  1. full of hope; expressing hope:
  2. exciting hope; promising advantage or success:

Origin of hopeful

First recorded in 1560-70; hope + -ful

Examples for hopeful

We are bound to be hopeful, nor wrong our great-hearted father.

Foxx is hopeful that young people are evolving past the point of being preoccupied with race.

She leaned over and kissed her father in a hopeful, pretty way.

But assuming things were ever that hopeful, heaven was short-lived, and trouble followed.

Here the Union men were hopeful, but the news from the East was bad.

He remained as hopeful as ever that he would himself join the NYPD, whatever the danger.

Is there any chance the potential 2016 hopeful will stand up to the right and embrace paid sick leave?

When that is removed, I am hopeful that we can take him without bloodshed.

One of whom she had been hopeful, had disappeared—it was supposed with another man's wife.

Bright-eyed and hopeful, she had become a national celebrity in her home country, even appearing on a TV variety show.

Word Value for hopeful
Scrable

15

Words with friends

17

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