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unhopeful

/hohp-fuhl/US // ˈhoʊp fəl //UK // (ˈhəʊpfʊl) //

不抱希望,无望,没有希望,不抱希望的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : full of hope; expressing hope: His hopeful words stimulated optimism.
    • : exciting hope; promising advantage or success: a hopeful prospect.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person who shows promise or aspires to success: the Democratic presidential hopeful.

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Examples

  • She’s hopeful the project will help us better understand why we don’t talk about sex and sexual health publicly—and, ideally, start to walk back puritanical norms about bodies and appropriateness.

  • I believe that we will see a time — I’m hopeful in my daughter’s lifetime and I pray that I’m around to see it — that women are protected in the Constitution.

  • Asked to share their approach to an uncertain future, four media executives said they remain hopeful for a partial return this year, but that policies will emphasize patience, caution and flexibility to employees’ varying needs and comfort levels.

  • The engineer working on Google Search Console was great, and heard me out, but I didn’t leave that conversation feeling we would see an API any time soon… although I was hopeful we might see one in the future.

  • We’re hopeful Johnson & Johnson will recognize they are making this vaccine here in Baltimore and it would be a shame if Baltimoreans didn’t directly benefit from it.

  • Is there any chance the potential 2016 hopeful will stand up to the right and embrace paid sick leave?

  • He remained as hopeful as ever that he would himself join the NYPD, whatever the danger.

  • Foxx is hopeful that young people are evolving past the point of being preoccupied with race.

  • But assuming things were ever that hopeful, heaven was short-lived, and trouble followed.

  • In our screenings, he always sits in the same corner chair and always looks hopeful, no matter what the movie.

  • The conclusion is reached that, despite these drawbacks, the Jesuit mission in Canada has made a hopeful beginning.

  • “A hopeful family yours, Mr. Trotter,” said Perker, sealing a letter which he had just finished writing.

  • The feeling is hopeful if only we had more men and especially drafts to fill up our weakened battalions.

  • She reminded him as she stood there then, of a serious young literary woman, and he was made hopeful by her visit.

  • He had a hopeful, sunny nature, and never looked upon the dark side of things if he could help it.