Hopeful and Inauspicious

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Hopeful adjective - Having qualities which inspire hope.

Usage example: economists are offering a hopeful forecast for a healthy economy in the coming year

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Inauspicious is an antonym for hopeful in topics: promising, optimistic.

Nearby Words: hopeless, hope, hopefulness, hopefully, hoped

Inauspicious adjective - Being or showing a sign of evil or calamity to come.

Usage example: this many problems so early in the project is a most inauspicious sign

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Hopeful is an antonym for inauspicious.

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Inauspicious and Hopeful. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/hopeful/inauspicious

Hopeful & Inauspicious. N.p., 2016. Web. 21 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/hopeful/inauspicious>.

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