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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | state of having positive beliefs |
| Synonyms: | anticipation, assurance, brightness, buoyancy, calmness, certainty, cheer, cheerfulness, confidence, easiness, elation, encouragement, enthusiasm, exhilaration, expectation, good cheer, happiness, hopefulness, idealism, looking on bright side, positivism, rose-colored glasses, sanguineness, sureness, trust |
| Antonyms: | doubt, gloom, hopelessness, pessimism |
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| Main Entry: | encouragement |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | help, support |
| Synonyms: | advance, advocacy, aid, animation, assistance, backing, boost, cheer, comfort, confidence, consolation, consoling, easement, enlivening, faith, favor, firmness, fortitude, helpfulness, hope, incentive, incitement, inspiration, inspiritment, invigoration, optimism, promotion, reassurance, reassuring, refreshment, relief, relieving, reward, shot in the arm, softening, solacing, stimulation, stimulus, succor, supporting, trust, urging |
| Antonyms: | denunciation, derision, deterrent, discouragement |
| Main Entry: | happiness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | high spirits, satisfaction |
| Synonyms: | beatitude, blessedness, bliss, cheer, cheerfulness, cheeriness, content, contentment, delectation, delight, delirium, ecstasy, elation, enchantment, enjoyment, euphoria, exhilaration, exuberance, felicity, gaiety, geniality, gladness, glee, good cheer, good humor, good spirits, hilarity, hopefulness, joviality, joy, jubilation, laughter, lightheartedness, merriment, mirth, optimism, paradise, peace of mind, playfulness, pleasure, prosperity, rejoicing, sanctity, seventh heaven, vivacity, well-being |
| Antonyms: | depression, gloom, misery, pain, sadness, sorrow, unhappiness, woe |
| Main Entry: | hope |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | longing; dream |
| Synonyms: | Utopia, achievement, ambition, anticipation, aspiration, assumption, belief, bright side, buoyancy, castles in air, concern, confidence, daydream, dependence, desire, endurance, expectancy, expectation, faith, fancy, fool's paradise, fortune, gain, goal, greedy glutton, hopefulness, light at end of tunnel, optimism, pipe dream, promise, promised land, prospect, reliance, reverie, reward, rosiness, sanguineness, security, stock, thing with feathers, wish |
| Antonyms: | despair, disbelief, discouragement, hopelessness, pessimism |
| Main Entry: | cheerfulness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | happiness |
| Synonyms: | animation, buoyancy, cheer, cheerfulness, cheeriness, comfort, delight, encouragement, exuberance, gaiety, geniality, gladness, glee, good cheer, hilarity, hopefulness, jauntiness, jocundity, joy, joyousness, light-heartedness, liveliness, merriment, mirth, optimism, solace |
| Antonyms: | cheerlessness, gloom, sadness |
| Main Entry: | positive thinking |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | positive attitude |
| Synonyms: | Pollyannaism, bright outlook, bullishness, cheerfulness, enthusiasm, great expectations, hopefulness, optimism, rosy outlook, silver lining |
| Main Entry: | joyfulness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | happiness |
| Synonyms: | beatitude, blessedness, bliss, cheer, cheerfulness, cheeriness, content, contentment, delectation, delight, delirium, ecstasy, elation, enchantment, enjoyment, euphoria, exhilaration, exuberance, felicity, gaiety, geniality, gladness, glee, good cheer, good humor, good spirits, hilarity, hopefulness, joviality, joy, jubilation, laughter, lightheartedness, merriment, mirth, optimism, paradise, peace of mind, playfulness, pleasure, prosperity, rejoicing, sanctity, seventh heaven, vivacity, well-being |
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| Main Entry: | happiness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Abderian, airy, all alive, allegro, animated, blithe, blithesome, bonny, bright, brisk, brisk as a bee, buoyant, buxom, canty, cardiac, cardiacal, cheerful, cheering, cheerly, cheery, cock, elate, elated, essorant, exhilarating, exultant, exulting, flushed, free and easy, frisky, frolicsome, full of play, full of spirit, gamesome, gay as a lark, gelastic, gelogenic, gleesome, happy, happy as a king, happy as the day is long, heartsome, hilarious, hopeful, in good spirits, in high feather, in high spirits, in spirits, inspiriting, janty, jaunty, jocose, jocular, jocund, jolly, jolly as a sand boy, jolly as a thrush, jovial, joyful, joyous, jubilant, laughable, laughing, laughter, light, lively, merry, merry as a cricket, merry as a grig, merry as a marriage, mirthful, mirthloving, of good cheer, ovant, palmy, playful, playful as a kitten, playsome, pleasing, rattling, ready to burst with laughter, ready to die with laughter, ready to split with laughter, rejoicing, rident, ridibund, risible, risorial, rollicking, smiling, sparkling, spirited, spiritful, sportive, sprightful, sprightly, spry, subrident, subrisive, sunny, tricksy, triumphant, unsoulclogged, vivacious, waggish, winsome
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| Concept: | Hope. |
| Category: | 3. Prospective Affections |
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-nouns
hope, hopes; desire; fervent hope, sanguine expectation, trust, confidence, reliance; faith (belief); affiance, assurance; secureness, security; reassurance., good omen, good auspices; promise, well grounded hopes; good prospect, bright prospect; clear sky., assumption, presumption; anticipation (expectation)., hopefulness, buoyancy, optimism, enthusiasm, heart of grace, aspiration; optimist, utopist., castles in the air, chateaux en Espagne, le pot au lait, Utopia, millennium; day dream, golden dream; dream of Alnaschar; airy hopes, fool's paradise; mirage (fallacies of vision); fond hope., beam of hope, ray of hope, gleam of hope, glimmer of hope, flash of hope; dawn of hope, star of hope; cheer; bit of blue sky, silver lining, silver lining of the cloud, bottom of Pandora's box, balm in Gilead., anchor, sheet anchor, mainstay; staff (support); heaven.
-verbs
hope, trust, confide, rely on, put one's trust in; lean upon; pin one's hope upon, pin one's faith upon (believe) [more]., feel hope, entertain hope, harbor hope, indulge hope, cherish hope, feed hope, foster hope, nourish hope, encourage hope, cling to hope, live in hope; see land; feel assured, rest assured, feel confident, rest confident, presume; promise oneself; expect (look forward to)., hope for (desire); anticipate., be hopeful; look on the bright side of, view on the sunny side, voir en couleur de rose, make the best of it, hope for the best; put a good face upon, put a bold face upon, put the best face upon; keep one's spirits up; take heart, take heart of grace; be of good heart, be of good cheer; flatter oneself, "lay the flattering unction to one's soul" [Hamlet], catch at a straw, hope against hope, reckon one's chickens before they are hatched., give hope, inspire hope, raise hope, hold out hope; promise, bid fair, augur well, be in a fair way, look up, flatter, tell a flattering tale; raise expectations; encourage, cheer, assure, reassure, buoy up, embolden.
-adjectives
hoping; in hopes; hopeful, confident; secure (certain); sanguine, in good heart, buoyed up, buoyant, elated, flushed, exultant, enthusiastic; heartsome; utopian., unsuspecting, unsuspicious; fearless, free from fear, free from suspicion, free from distrust, free from despair, exempt from fear, exempt from suspicion, exempt from distrust, exempt from despair; undespairing, self reliant., probable, on the high road to; within sight of shore, within sight of land; promising, propitious; of promise, full of promise; of good omen; auspicious, de bon augure; reassuring; encouraging, cheering, inspiriting, looking up, bright, roseate, couleur de rose, rose-colored.
-adverbs
hopefully
-phrases
nil desperandum [Horace]; never say die, dum spiro spero, latet scintillula forsan, all is for the best, spero meliora; "the wish being father to the thought" [Henry IV]; "hope told a flattering tale"; rusticus
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| Antonyms: | hopelessness |
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