| anticipation | | |
| n. (feeling) | 1. anticipation, expectancy | an expectation. |
| ~ expectation | the feeling that something is about to happen. |
| ~ suspense | excited anticipation of an approaching climax.; "the play kept the audience in suspense" |
| ~ fever | intense nervous anticipation.; "in a fever of resentment" |
| ~ hope | a specific instance of feeling hopeful.; "it revived their hope of winning the pennant" |
| n. (cognition) | 2. anticipation, expectancy | something expected (as on the basis of a norm).; "each of them had their own anticipations"; "an indicator of expectancy in development" |
| ~ expectation, outlook, prospect | belief about (or mental picture of) the future. |
| ~ life expectancy | an expected time to live as calculated on the basis of statistical probabilities. |
| n. (cognition) | 3. anticipation, prediction, prevision | the act of predicting (as by reasoning about the future). |
| ~ abstract thought, logical thinking, reasoning | thinking that is coherent and logical. |
| ~ projection | a prediction made by extrapolating from past observations. |
| ~ prophecy, vaticination, prognostication | knowledge of the future (usually said to be obtained from a divine source). |
| ~ adumbration, foreshadowing, prefiguration | the act of providing vague advance indications; representing beforehand. |
| n. (state) | 4. anticipation, expectation | anticipating with confidence of fulfillment. |
| ~ hopefulness | full of hope. |
| hope | | |
| n. (feeling) | 1. hope | a specific instance of feeling hopeful.; "it revived their hope of winning the pennant" |
| ~ anticipation, expectancy | an expectation. |
| n. (feeling) | 2. hope | the general feeling that some desire will be fulfilled.; "in spite of his troubles he never gave up hope" |
| ~ feeling | the experiencing of affective and emotional states.; "she had a feeling of euphoria"; "he had terrible feelings of guilt"; "I disliked him and the feeling was mutual" |
| ~ hopefulness | the feeling you have when you have hope. |
| ~ encouragement | the feeling of being encouraged. |
| ~ optimism | the optimistic feeling that all is going to turn out well. |
| n. (cognition) | 3. hope, promise | grounds for feeling hopeful about the future.; "there is little or no promise that he will recover" |
| ~ expectation, outlook, prospect | belief about (or mental picture of) the future. |
| ~ rainbow | an illusory hope.; "chasing rainbows" |
| n. (person) | 4. hope | someone (or something) on which expectations are centered.; "he was their best hope for a victory" |
| ~ individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul | a human being.; "there was too much for one person to do" |
| ~ great white hope, white hope | someone (or something) expected to achieve great success in a given field.; "this company is the great white hope of the nuclear industry's waste management policy" |
| n. (person) | 5. bob hope, hope, leslie townes hope | United States comedian (born in England) who appeared in films with Bing Crosby (1903-2003). |
| ~ comedian, comic | a professional performer who tells jokes and performs comical acts. |
| n. (attribute) | 6. hope | one of the three Christian virtues. |
| ~ supernatural virtue, theological virtue | according to Christian ethics: one of the three virtues (faith, hope, and charity) created by God to round out the natural virtues. |
| v. (emotion) | 7. desire, hope, trust | expect and wish.; "I trust you will behave better from now on"; "I hope she understands that she cannot expect a raise" |
| ~ wish | hope for; have a wish.; "I wish I could go home now" |
| v. (emotion) | 8. hope | be optimistic; be full of hope; have hopes.; "I am still hoping that all will turn out well" |
| ~ desire, want | feel or have a desire for; want strongly.; "I want to go home now"; "I want my own room" |
| v. (cognition) | 9. go for, hope | intend with some possibility of fulfilment.; "I hope to have finished this work by tomorrow evening" |
| ~ be after, plan | have the will and intention to carry out some action.; "He plans to be in graduate school next year"; "The rebels had planned turmoil and confusion" |
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