[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

hopeful \hope"ful\, a.
   1. full of hope, or agreeable expectation; inclined to hope;
      expectant.
      1913 webster

            men of their own natural inclination hopeful and
            strongly conceited.                   --hooker.
      1913 webster

   2. having qualities which excite hope; affording promise of
      good or of success; as, a hopeful youth; a hopeful
      prospect. "hopeful scholars." --addison. -- hope"fully,
      adv. -- hope"fulness, n.
      1913 webster
see also:
hope"fully hope"fulness 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

hopeful
     adj 1: having or manifesting or inspiring hope; "a line of people
            hopeful of obtaining tickets"; "found a hopeful way of
            attacking the problem" ant: hopeless
     2: presaging good fortune; "she made a fortunate decision to go
        to medical school"; "rosy predictions" syn: fortunate,
        rosy
     n : an ambitious and aspiring young person; "a lofty aspirant";
         "two executive hopefuls joined the firm"; "the audience
         was full of madonna wannabes" syn: aspirant, aspirer,
          wannabe, wannabee
see also:
hopeless fortunate rosy aspirant aspirer wannabe 
wannabee 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

179 moby thesaurus words for "hopeful":
   leibnizian optimist, pollyanna, addict, adolescent, advantageous,
   agape, agog, all agog, also-ran, anticipant, anticipating,
   anticipative, anticipatory, applicant, apt, aspirant, aspirer,
   aspiring, assured, auspicious, awaiting, baby, baby kisser,
   beaming, blithe, blithesome, bright, bright and sunny, budding,
   candidate, certain, cheerful, cheering, cheery, chiliast,
   collector, confident, content, couleur de rose, coveter,
   dark horse, defeated candidate, desirer, devotee, dud, eager, easy,
   elated, encouraging, eupeptic, euphoric, exalted, exhilarated,
   expectant, expecting, fair, fancier, favorite son, fledgling,
   flushed, fond, forearmed, foreseeable, forestalling, forewarned,
   freak, full of hope, gaping, genial, glad, gladsome, glowing,
   golden, halcyon, hankerer, happy, heartening, high, hoper, hoping,
   in anticipation, in expectation, in good heart, in good spirits,
   in high spirits, in hopes, in the cards, infant, inspiriting,
   irrepressible, irrepressible optimist, junior, juvenal, juvenile,
   lame duck, laughing, liable, likely, looking for,
   looking forward to, lover, millenarian, millennialist, millennian,
   minor, not surprised, odds-on, of good cheer, of good hope,
   office seeker, optimist, optimistic, perfectibilist,
   perfectibilitarian, perfectionist, philosophical optimist,
   pleasant, political hopeful, predictable,
   predictable within limits, prepared, presidential timber,
   presumable, presumptive, probable, promising, propitious,
   pubescent, radiant, ray of sunshine, ready, reassuring, riant,
   rose-colored, roseate, rosy, running mate, sanguine, sanguineous,
   sapling, satisfied, secure, seeker, slip, smiling, solicitant,
   sparkling, sprig, stalking-horse, statistically probable,
   stripling, suitor, sunny, sure, teenager, teener, teenybopper,
   undespairing, undisturbed, unsurprised, up-and-coming, upbeat,
   utopian, verisimilar, votary, waiting, waiting for, wanter,
   watching for, winsome, wisher, yearner, young hopeful,
   young person, younger, youngest, youngling, youngster, youth

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