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hopefuladjective having qualities which inspire hopeeconomists are offering a hopeful forecast for a healthy economy in the coming year auspicious, bright, encouraging, fair, golden, heartening, likely, optimistic, promising, propitious, roseate, rose-colored, rosy, upbeat cheering, comforting, reassuring, soothingassured, confident, decisive, doubtless, positive, sure, unhesitatingbeamish, bullish, eupepticfavorable, good bleak, dark, depressing, desperate, discouraging, disheartening, dismal, downbeat, dreary, gloomy, hopeless, inauspicious, pessimistic, unencouraging, unlikely, unpromising, unpropitious cheerless, comfortlessdoubtful, dubious, uncertainbearish, grim, negative, unfavorablefunereal, glum, gray(also grey), miserable, wretched pointing toward a happy outcomein a hopeful response to the ad, several people called to say they'd seen our lost cat auspicious, bright, encouraging, favorable, golden, heartening, promising, propitious fortunate, fortuitous, happy, lucky, providentialadvantageous, beneficial, profitable, prosperous, salutary dim, discouraging, disheartening, futureless, hopeless, inauspicious, unfavorable, unpromising, unpropitious unfortunate, unhappy, unluckycalamitous, catastrophic, disastrous, fatal, ruinousbaleful, dark, dire, direful, doomy, foreboding, gloomy, ill, ill-boding, menacing, minatory, ominous, portentous, sinister, threatening hopefulnounone who seeks an office, honor, position, or awardthe three mayoral hopefuls are going to debate on local TV applicant, applier, aspirant, campaigner, candidate, contender, expectant, prospect, seeker competitor, contestant, entrant, entry, favorite, qualifierdark horse, spoiler, stalking horsecrown prince, favorite sonclaimant, pretendernominee, running mate noncandidate incumbent, officeholderawardee, honoree, inducteedropout in 1568 |