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Waiting vs Hoping - What's the difference?

waiting | hoping |

As verbs the difference between waiting and hoping

is that waiting is while hoping is .

As a noun waiting

is (obsolete) watching.

As an adjective hoping is

filled with or inspiring hope .

waiting

English

(wikipedia waiting)

Verb

(head)
  • * 1874 , (John Fiske), Outlines of Cosmic Philosophy , I. 122.
    • In all ages, men have fought over words, without waiting to know what the words really signified.
  • *, chapter=19
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=At the far end of the houses the head gardener stood waiting for his mistress, and he gave her strips of bass to tie up her nosegay. This she did slowly and laboriously, with knuckly old fingers that shook.}}

    Derived terms

    * waiting game * waiting room

    Noun

  • (obsolete) Watching.
  • The act of staying or remaining in expectation.
  • * 1876 , , The New Day, A Poem in Songs and Sonnets
    • There was an awful waiting in the earth, / As if a mystery greatened to its birth.
  • Attendance, service.
  • *
    • Green glasses for hock, and excellent waiting at table.

    Derived terms

    * in waiting

    References

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    hoping

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • * William Trogdon
    • There are two kinds of adventurers: those who go truly hoping to find adventure and those who go secretly hoping they won't.
    I'm hoping the weather will be sunny tomorrow.

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Filled with or inspiring hope.
    • A hoping situation is not yet desolate.