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{
"term": "hopeful",
"partOfSpeech": "adjective",
"ox5000": true,
"cefr": "c1",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "believing that something you want will happen",
"sensetop": "hopeful (that…)hopeful about somethinghopeful of doing something",
"labels": "(British English)",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "I feel hopeful that we'll find a suitable house very soon.",
"contextForm": "hopeful (that…)"
},
{
"text": "He is not very hopeful about the outcome of the interview.",
"contextForm": "hopeful about something"
},
{
"text": "She is hopeful of returning to work soon.",
"contextForm": "hopeful of doing something"
},
{
"text": "I feel hopeful that a peaceful solution will be found."
},
{
"text": "Only Janet, eternally hopeful, thought it was worth trying again."
},
{
"text": "She was not very hopeful about her situation."
},
{
"text": "The police are hopeful of catching the thieves."
},
{
"text": "The police remained hopeful that she would be found alive."
}
],
"synonyms": "optimistic",
"topics": ["Success"],
"collocations": {
"verbs": ["be", "feel", "seem"],
"adverb": ["extremely", "fairly", "very"],
"preposition": ["about", "of"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "showing hope",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "a hopeful smile"
}
],
"collocations": {
"verbs": ["be", "feel", "seem"],
"adverb": ["extremely", "fairly", "very"],
"preposition": ["about", "of"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "making you believe that something you want will happen; bringing hope",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "The latest trade figures are a hopeful sign."
},
{
"text": "The future did not seem very hopeful."
},
{
"text": "There are some fairly hopeful signs of recovery in the US market."
},
{
"text": "Things aren't looking very hopeful at the moment."
},
{
"text": "This is the first hopeful sign that the hostages might be released soon."
}
],
"synonyms": "promising",
"collocations": {
"verbs": ["be", "look", "seem"],
"adverb": ["extremely", "fairly", "very"]
}
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈhəʊpfl/",
"audio": "ho/hopeful/hopeful__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈhəʊpfl/",
"audio": "ho/hopeful/hopeful__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": null
}