Bible Dictionaries
Hopeful
Webster's Dictionary
(1):
(a.) Having qualities which excite hope; affording promise of good or of success; as, a hopeful youth; a hopeful prospect.
(2):
(a.) Full of hope, or agreeable expectation; inclined to hope; expectant.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Hopeful'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​h/hopeful.html. 1828.