Synonyms of the word

hope

• n. (uncountable) The belief or expectation that something wished for can or will happen.
• n. (countable) The actual thing wished for.
• n. (countable) A person or thing that is a source of hope.
• n. (Christianity) The virtuous desire for future good.
• v. (intransitive) To want something to happen, with a sense of expectation that it might.
• v. To be optimistic; be full of hope; have hopes.
• v. (intransitive) To place confidence; to trust with confident expectation of good; usually followed by in.
• n. (Northern England, Scotland) A hollow; a valley, especially the upper end of a narrow mountain valley…
• n. A sloping plain between mountain ridges.
• n. (Scotland) A small bay; an inlet; a haven.

anticipation

• n. The act of anticipating, taking up, placing, or considering something beforehand, or before the proper…
• n. The eagerness associated with waiting for something to occur.
• n. (finance) Prepayment of a debt, generally in order to pay less interest.
• n. (rhetoric) Prolepsis.
• n. (music) A non-harmonic tone that is lower or higher than a note in the previous chord and a unison to…
• n. (obsolete) Hasty notion; intuitive preconception.

comedian

• n. An entertainer who performs in a humorous manner, especially by telling jokes.
• n. (by extension) Any person who is characteristically humorous or amusing.
• n. A writer of comedy.

comic

• adj. Funny; amusing; comical.
• adj. Relating to comedy.
• n. A comedian.
• n. A story composed of cartoon images arranged in sequence, usually with textual captions; a graphic novel.
• n. (Britain) A children's newspaper.

desire

• v. To want; to wish for earnestly.
• v. To put a request to (someone); to entreat.
• v. To want emotionally or sexually.
• v. To express a wish for; to entreat; to request.
• v. To require; to demand; to claim.
• v. To miss; to regret.
• n. (countable) Someone or something wished for.
• n. (uncountable) Strong attraction, particularly romantic or sexual.
• n. (uncountable) Motivation.
• n. (uncountable) The feeling of desire.

expectancy

• n. expectation or anticipation; the state of expecting something.
• n. the state of being expected.
• n. something expected or awaited.

expectation

• n. The act or state of expecting or looking forward to an event as about to happen.
• n. That which is expected or looked for.
• n. The prospect of the future; grounds upon which something excellent is expected to occur; prospect of anything…
• n. The value of any chance (as the prospect of prize or property) which depends upon some contingent event.
• n. (statistics) The first moment; the long-run average value of a variable over many independent repetitions…
• n. (colloquial statistics) The arithmetic mean.
• n. (medicine, rare) The leaving of a disease principally to the efforts of nature to effect a cure.

feeling

• adj. Emotionally sensitive.
• adj. Expressive of great sensibility; attended by, or evincing, sensibility.
• n. Sensation, particularly through the skin.
• n. Emotion; impression.
• n. (always in the plural) Emotional state or well-being.
• n. (always in the plural) Emotional attraction or desire.
• n. Intuition.
• n. An opinion, an attitude.
• v. present participle of feel.

individual

• n. A person considered alone, rather than as belonging to a group of people.
• n. (law) A single physical human being as a legal subject, as opposed to a legal person such as a corporation.
• n. An object, be it a thing or an agent, as contrasted to a class.
• n. (statistics) An element belonging to a population.
• adj. Relating to a single person or thing as opposed to more than one.
• adj. Intended for a single person as opposed to more than one person.

mortal

• adj. Susceptible to death by aging, sickness, injury, or wound; not immortal.
• adj. Causing death; deadly, fatal, killing, lethal (now only of wounds, injuries etc.).
• adj. Fatally vulnerable; vital.
• adj. Of or relating to the time of death.
• adj. Affecting as if with power to kill; deathly.
• adj. Human; belonging to man, who is mortal.
• adj. Very painful or tedious; wearisome.
• adj. (Britain, slang) Very drunk; wasted; smashed.
• n. A human; someone susceptible to death.

outlook

• n. A place from which something can be viewed.
• n. The view from such a place.
• n. An attitude or point of view.
• n. Expectation for the future.
• v. (transitive) To face down; to outstare.
• v. To inspect throughly; to select.

person

• n. An individual; usually a human being.
• n. The physical body of a being seen as distinct from the mind, character, etc.
• n. (law) Any individual or formal organization with standing before the courts.
• n. (law) The human genitalia; specifically, the penis.
• n. (grammar) A linguistic category used to distinguish between the speaker of an utterance and those to whom…
• n. (biology) A shoot or bud of a plant; a polyp or zooid of the compound Hydrozoa, Anthozoa, etc.; also,…
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To represent as a person; to personify; to impersonate.
• v. (transitive, gender-neutral) To man.

plan

• n. A drawing showing technical details of a building, machine, etc., with unwanted details omitted, and often…
• n. A set of intended actions, usually mutually related, through which one expects to achieve a goal.
• n. A two-dimensional drawing of a building as seen from above with obscuring or irrelevant details such as…
• n. A method; a way of procedure; a custom.
• n. A subscription to a service; e.g., a phone plan, an internet plan.
• v. (transitive) To design (a building, machine, etc.).
• v. (transitive) To create a plan for.
• v. (intransitive) To intend.
• v. See plan on.
• v. (intransitive) To make a plan.

promise

• n. (countable) An oath or affirmation; a vow.
• n. (countable) A transaction between two persons whereby the first person undertakes in the future to render…
• n. (uncountable) Reason to expect improvement or success; potential.
• n. (countable, computing, programming) A placeholder object that can be manipulated in code before it has…
• n. (countable, obsolete) Bestowal or fulfillment of what is promised.
• v. (transitive) To commit to something or action; to make an oath; make a vow.
• v. (intransitive) To give grounds for expectation, especially of something good.

prospect

• n. The region which the eye overlooks at one time; view; scene; outlook.
• n. A picturesque or panoramic view; a landscape; hence, a sketch of a landscape.
• n. A position affording a fine view; a lookout.
• n. Relative position of the front of a building or other structure; face; relative aspect.
• n. The act of looking forward; foresight; anticipation.
• n. The potential things that may come to pass, often favorable.
• n. A hope; a hopeful.
• n. (sports) Any player whose rights are owned by a top-level professional team, but who has yet to play a…
• n. (music) The façade of an organ.
• v. (intransitive) To search, as for gold.
• v. (geology, mining) To determine which minerals or metals are present in a location.

somebody

• pron. Some unspecified person.
• n. A recognised person, a celebrity.

someone

• pron. Some person.
• n. A partially specified but unnamed person.

soul

• n. (religion, folklore) The spirit or essence of a person usually thought to consist of one's thoughts and…
• n. The spirit or essence of anything.
• n. Life, energy, vigor.
• n. (music) Soul music.
• n. A person, especially as one among many.
• n. An individual life.
• n. (mathematics) A kind of submanifold involved in the soul theorem of Riemannian geometry.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To endow with a soul; to furnish with a soul or mind.
• v. (obsolete) To afford suitable sustenance.

trust

• n. Confidence in or reliance on some person or quality.
• n. Dependence upon something in the future; hope.
• n. Confidence in the future payment for goods or services supplied; credit.
• n. That which is committed or entrusted; something received in confidence; a charge.
• n. That upon which confidence is reposed; ground of reliance; hope.
• n. (rare) Trustworthiness, reliability.
• n. The condition or obligation of one to whom anything is confided; responsible charge or office.
• n. (law) The confidence vested in a person who has legal ownership of a property to manage for the benefit…
• n. (law) An estate devised or granted in confidence that the devisee or grantee shall convey it, or dispose…
• n. A group of businessmen or traders organised for mutual benefit to produce and distribute specific commodities…
• n. (computing) Affirmation of the access rights of a user of a computer system.
• v. (transitive) To place confidence in; to rely on, to confide, or have faith, in.
• v. (transitive) To give credence to; to believe; to credit.
• v. (transitive) To hope confidently; to believe (usually with a phrase or infinitive clause as the object).
• v. (transitive) to show confidence in a person by entrusting them with something.
• v. (transitive) To commit, as to one's care; to entrust.
• v. (transitive) To give credit to; to sell to upon credit, or in confidence of future payment.
• v. (archaic, transitive) To risk; to venture confidently.
• v. (intransitive) To have trust; to be credulous; to be won to confidence; to confide.
• v. (intransitive) To be confident, as of something future; to hope.
• v. (archaic, intransitive) To sell or deliver anything in reliance upon a promise of payment; to give credit.
• adj. (obsolete) Secure, safe.
• adj. (obsolete) Faithful, dependable.
• adj. (law) of or relating to a trust.

want

• v. (transitive) To wish for or to desire (something).
• v. (intransitive, now dated) To be lacking, not to exist.
• v. (transitive) To lack, not to have (something).
• v. (transitive, colloquially with verbal noun as object) To be in need of; to require (something).
• v. (intransitive, dated) To be in a state of destitution; to be needy; to lack.
• n. (countable) A desire, wish, longing.
• n. (countable, often followed by of) Lack, absence.
• n. (uncountable) Poverty.
• n. Something needed or desired; a thing of which the loss is felt.
• n. (Britain, mining) A depression in coal strata, hollowed out before the subsequent deposition took place.

wish

• n. a desire, hope, or longing for something or for something to happen.
• n. an expression of such a desire etc.
• n. the process of expressing or thinking about such a desire etc. (often connected with ideas of magic and…
• n. the thing desired or longed for.
• n. (Sussex) a water meadow.
• v. (transitive) To desire; to want.
• v. (intransitive, followed by for) To hope (for a particular outcome).
• v. (ditransitive) To bestow (a thought or gesture) towards (someone or something).
• v. (intransitive, followed by to and an infinitive) To request or desire to do an activity.
• v. (transitive) To recommend; to seek confidence or favour on behalf of.