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  • adjective proscribed comparative form of hopeful: more hopeful

Etymologies

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hopeful +‎ -er

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Examples

  • Bush has always dreamed of making America a more literate country and a "hopefuller" country, and with smartening drugs like

    The Toque 2009

  • But, on the whole, the Simplon appearing to be the hopefuller route, Vendale decided to take it.

    No Thoroughfare 2007

  • So I sent my workers home that morning rejoicing with the truth, and was all the happier and hopefuller myself because of it.

    Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man Marie Conway Oemler 1905

  • Constantine, usually with the legend _Dabit Devs His Qvoqve Finem_, but twice or thrice with a hopefuller one, _Generis revocemvs honores_.

    Sir John Constantine Memoirs of His Adventures At Home and Abroad and Particularly in the Island of Corsica: Beginning with the Year 1756 Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

  • By this time the Doctor and Lieutenant Clogg had joined him, and their faces too wore a hopefuller, more contented look.

    Merry-Garden and Other Stories Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

  • Some of them may have been borrowed by, rather than from, younger and hopefuller craftsmanship, but the general effect is the same.

    The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) George Saintsbury 1889

  • Ponkwasset and the rush of New York, the lazy ease of the hotel pleased him; the clack of boots over its pavements, the clouds of tobacco smoke, the Southern and Western accents, the spectacle of people unexpectedly encountering and recognising each other in the office and the dining-room, all helped to restore him to a hopefuller mood.

    April Hopes William Dean Howells 1878

  • Grayson was very polite to her, and said hopefuller things about the play than he had yet said to Maxwell, though he had always been civil about its merits.

    The Story of a Play A Novel William Dean Howells 1878

  • Under the influence of good music, too, a not unfavourable inclination towards the person sitting beside us and sharing that sweetness, will soften general prejudices -- if he was Irish, he was boyishly Irish, not like his inscrutable brother; a better, or hopefuller edition of Captain Con; one with whom something could be done to steady him, direct him, improve him.

    Celt and Saxon — Complete George Meredith 1868

  • Under the influence of good music, too, a not unfavourable inclination towards the person sitting beside us and sharing that sweetness, will soften general prejudices -- if he was Irish, he was boyishly Irish, not like his inscrutable brother; a better, or hopefuller edition of Captain Con; one with whom something could be done to steady him, direct him, improve him.

    Celt and Saxon — Volume 2 George Meredith 1868

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