ROGET'S THESAURUS OF ENGLISH WORDS AND PHRASES ...

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 [Fr.];
reassuring; encouraging, cheering, inspiriting, looking up, bright, roseate, couleur de rose
[Fr.], rose-colored.
Adv. hopefully &c adj..
Int. God speed!,
Phr. nil desperandum [Lat.] [Horace]; never say die, dum spiro spero [Lat.], latet
scintillula forsan [Lat.], all is for the best, spero meliora [Lat.]; every cloud has a silver
lining; the wish being father to the thought [Henry IV]; hope told a flattering tale;
rusticus expectat dum defluat amnis [Lat.].
at spes non fracta [Lat.]; ego spem prietio non emo [Lat.] [Terence]; un Dieu est ma
fiance [Fr.]; hope! thou nurse of young desire [Bickerstaff]; in hoc signo spes mea [Lat.];
in hoc signo vinces [Lat.]; la speranza e il pan de miseri [It]; l'esperance est le songe d'un
homme eveille [Fr.]; the mighty hopes that make us men [Tennyson]; the sickening pang
of hope deferred [Scott].
859. [Absence, want or loss of hope.] Hopelessness -- N. hopelessness &c adj.; despair,
desperation; despondency, depression &c (dejection) 837; pessimism, pessimist; Job's
comforter; bird of bad omen, bird of ill omen.
abandonment, desolation; resignation, surrender, submission &c 725.
hope deferred, dashed hopes; vain expectation &c (disappointment) 509.
airy hopes &c &c 858; forlorn hope; gone case, dead duck, gone coon [U.S.]; goner
[Slang]; bad job, bad business; enfant perdu [Fr.]; gloomy horizon, black spots in the
horizon; slough of Despond, cave of Despair; immedicabile vulnus [Lat.].
V. despair; lose all hope, give up all hope, abandon all hope, relinquish all hope, lose the
hope of, give up the hope of, abandon the hope of, relinquish the hope of; give up, give
over; yield to despair; falter; despond &c (be dejected) 837; jeter le manche apres la
cognee [Fr.].
inspire despair, drive to despair &c n.; disconcert; dash one's hopes, crush one's hopes,
destroy one's hopes; hope against hope.
abandon; resign, surrender, submit &c 725.
Adj. hopeless, desperate, despairing, gone, in despair, au desespoir [Fr.], forlorn,
desolate; inconsolable &c (dejected) 837; broken hearted.
unpromising, unpropitious; inauspicious, ill-omened, threatening, clouded over.
out of the question, not to be thought of; impracticable &c 471; past hope, past cure,
past mending, past recall; at one's last gasp &c (death) 360; given up, given over.
incurable, cureless, immedicable, remediless, beyond remedy; incorrigible;
irreparable, irremediable, irrecoverable, irreversible, irretrievable, irreclaimable,
irredeemable, irrevocable; ruined, undone; immitigable.
Phr. lasciate ogni speranza voi ch'entrate [Dante]; its days are numbered; the worst come
to the worst; no change, no pause, no hope, yet I endure [Shelley]; O dark, dark, dark,
amid the blaze of noon [Milton]; mene mene tekel upharson [Old Testament].
860. Fear -- N. fear, timidity, diffidence, want of confidence; apprehensiveness,
fearfulness &c adj.; solicitude, anxiety, care, apprehension, misgiving; feeze [U.S.];
mistrust &c (doubt) 485; suspicion, qualm; hesitation &c (irresolution) 605.