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Hopeful vs Fearful - What's the difference?

hopeful | fearful |

As adjectives the difference between hopeful and fearful

is that hopeful is feeling hope while fearful is frightening.

As a noun hopeful

is somebody who is hoping for success or victory.

hopeful

English

Alternative forms

* hopefull (archaic)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Feeling hope.
    • I have been very hopeful .
    I am hopeful that I will recover from the disease.
  • Inspiring hope.

    • Antonyms

    * hopeless * desperate * dejected

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Somebody who is hoping for success or victory.
    • Several presidential hopefuls are campaigning in New Hampshire this week.

    fearful

    English

    Alternative forms

    * fearefull (obsolete) * fearfull (obsolete)

    Adjective

    (fearfuller)
  • Frightening.
  • Frightened, filled with terror.
  • * 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.4:
    • Those two great champions did attonce pursew / The fearefull damzell with incessant payns [...].
  • Terrible.
  • Tending to fear.
    • fearful boy

    Synonyms

    * (frightened) frightened, timid, timorous * See also

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