See Also: hopeful(dictionary)
hopeful 1, adjective(dictionary)
hopeful 2, noun(dictionary)

tepor (iou) and hopeful (iou)


tepor (iou)



tepor noun.M17-M18.
[Latin, from tepere be warm.]
= TEPIDITY.

hopeful (iou)



hopeful adjective & noun. ME.
[from HOPE noun1 + -FUL.]
A. adjective.
Full of hope; feeling or Entertaining hope. ME.
T. Herbert Hopeful of some reward. J. Buchan Gazing at his companion as a hopeful legatee might gaze at a lawyer engaged in reading a will.
b. Expressing hope. E17.
J. B. Priestley In the original itinerary I sketched for myself..there were hopeful references to places like Newmarket.
Inspiring hope, promising; iron. likely to disappoint hopes. M16.
b. noun. A person, esp. (more fully young hopeful) a young person, likely to succeed or iron. to be disappointed; a person who hopes to achieve something. E18.
R. Huntford Like many another hopeful, he was rushing to strike while the iron was hot.
hopefulness noun E17.