The Oxford Thesaurus An A-Z Dictionary of Synonyms INTRO ...

dance: Here comes Peter Cottontail, Hopping down the bunny
trail. 2 take a (short) trip or voyage, travel, come, go,
proceed; fly: Those yuppies think nothing of hopping over to
Paris just for dinner.
--n. 3 jump, leap, bound, spring, vault; skip, caper, dance:
In a few hops the bird was off the branch and onto my finger. 4
(short) trip or flight or journey or voyage: The Bahamas are
just a hop from Miami.
hope n. 1 desire, wish, expectation, yearning, hankering, craving,
longing, fancy; ambition, (day)dream: It was always my hope
that you would go to university. 2 prospect, promise,
expectation, expectancy, confidence, anticipation, assumption,
security, faith, conviction, belief, trust: We had given up
hope of being rescued.
--v. 3 aspire, count or rely on or upon, anticipate,
contemplate, foresee, look forward to, expect, await, wait:
After all these years, he is still hoping to meet the girl of
his dreams. 4 trust; wish, want, desire; Dialect expect: I hope
my ship will come in soon. I hope to see the last of her
tomorrow.
hopeful adj. 1 expectant, anticipating, optimistic, sanguine,
confident, assured: We are hopeful of victory in the
forthcoming election. 2 promising, bright, rosy, reassuring,
heartening, encouraging, auspicious, propitious, inspiriting:
Today was a disaster, but tomorrow looks more hopeful.
hopefully adv. 1 expectantly, optimistically, sanguinely, confidently:
Jocelyn set off hopefully for the party. 2 with (any) luck, if
things go well, all being well, it is hoped, expectedly:
Hopefully, we shall arrive in time to catch the train.
hopeless adj. 1 desperate, beyond hope or saving, irreparable, beyond
repair, irremediable, lost, gone, irretrievable; incurable,
terminal, deadly, fatal, lethal: As their ship drifted into the
intergalactic void, they saw that their situation was hopeless.
They told me that her condition was hopeless. 2 bad, poor,
incompetent, inferior, inadequate, inept, unqualified, unfit,
unskilful, deficient: You might make a good surgeon, but as a
judge of human nature you're hopeless. 3 despairing, despondent,