{
    "term": "hopeful",
    "partOfSpeech": "adjective",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "c1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "believing that something you want will happen",
            "sensetop": "hopeful (that…)hopeful about somethinghopeful of doing something",
            "labels": "(British English)",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "I feel hopeful that we'll find a suitable house very soon.",
                    "contextForm": "hopeful (that…)"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He is not very hopeful about the outcome of the interview.",
                    "contextForm": "hopeful about something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "She is hopeful of returning to work soon.",
                    "contextForm": "hopeful of doing something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I feel hopeful that a peaceful solution will be found."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Only Janet, eternally hopeful, thought it was worth trying again."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She was not very hopeful about her situation."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The police are hopeful of catching the thieves."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The police remained hopeful that she would be found alive."
                }
            ],
            "synonyms": "optimistic",
            "topics": ["Success"],
            "collocations": {
                "verbs": ["be", "feel", "seem"],
                "adverb": ["extremely", "fairly", "very"],
                "preposition": ["about", "of"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "showing hope",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a hopeful smile"
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "verbs": ["be", "feel", "seem"],
                "adverb": ["extremely", "fairly", "very"],
                "preposition": ["about", "of"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "making you believe that something you want will happen; bringing hope",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The latest trade figures are a hopeful sign."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The future did not seem very hopeful."
                },
                {
                    "text": "There are some fairly hopeful signs of recovery in the US market."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Things aren't looking very hopeful at the moment."
                },
                {
                    "text": "This is the first hopeful sign that the hostages might be released soon."
                }
            ],
            "synonyms": "promising",
            "collocations": {
                "verbs": ["be", "look", "seem"],
                "adverb": ["extremely", "fairly", "very"]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈhəʊpfl/",
                "audio": "ho/hopeful/hopeful__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈhəʊpfl/",
                "audio": "ho/hopeful/hopeful__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": null
}