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Unhoped vs Unhope - What's the difference?

unhoped | unhope |

As an adjective unhoped

is not hoped for; unexpected.

As a noun unhope is

absence or lack of hope; hopelessness; despair.

unhoped

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Not hoped for; unexpected.
  • *{{quote-book, year=, author=John Dryden, title=The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Vol I, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=The Prince of peace would like himself confer / A gift unhoped , without the price of war }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=, author=Eliza Fowler Haywood, title=The Fortunate Foundlings, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=With these words he gave him a letter directed, as he had said, but not sealed, which Horatio, after he had manifested the sense he had of so unhoped an obligation, reminded him of. }}

    Usage notes

    * (unhoped-for) is more frequently encountered.

    unhope

    English

    Noun

  • Absence or lack of hope; hopelessness; despair.
  • *1902 , Thomas Hardy, In Tenebris I :
    • Black is night's cope; But death will not appal One who, past doubtings all Waits in unhope .

    Synonyms

    * (l)