hopeful
adjective
unhopeful
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a word derived from
hopeful.
Example Sentences
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What matters, it seems, is not so much whether a person feels hopeful or unhopeful about the future, but how constructively they deal with their emotions.
From Salon ● Dec. 1, 2024
Being unhopeful about climate change is so unpopular that I myself, an environment-focused journalist, am fearful of publicly admitting my own pessimistic outlook.
From Salon ● Dec. 1, 2024
The unhopeful thing is that we are living through what my colleague Martin Wolf labels very correctly as pluto-populism.
From Slate ● Jul. 5, 2017
So let me say one unhopeful thing before I say one hopeful thing.
From Slate ● Jul. 5, 2017
“It may have slipped out in the night,” Nathan said, and we went back, unhopeful, to where we had slept but the ground was bare and innocent.
From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya
