Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922.
Class VI. Words Relating to the Sentient and Moral PowersSection II. Personal Affections
3. Prospective Affections
858. Hope.
good -omen, – auspices; promise, well-grounded hopes; good -, bright- prospect; clear sky.
HOPEFULNESS, buoyancy, optimism, enthusiasm, heart of grace, aspiration; assumption, presumption; anticipation (expectation) [See Expectation].
OPTIMIST, utopist [rare], utopian.
DAYDREAM, castles in the air, châteaux en Espagne [F.], le pot au lait [F.], Utopia, millennium; golden dream; dream of Alnaschar; airy hopes, fool’s paradise; mirage &c. (fallacies of vision) [See Dim-sightedness]; fond hope.
RAY OF HOPE; beam -, gleam -, glimmer -, dawn -, flash -, star- of hope; cheer; bit of blue sky, silver lining of the cloud, bottom of Pandora’s box, balm in Gilead.
MAINSTAY, anchor, sheet anchor; staff (support) [See Support]; heaven [See Heaven].
feel -, entertain -, harbor -, indulge -, cherish -, feed -, foster -, nourish -, encourage -, cling to -, live in- hope &c. n.; see land; feel -, rest- -assured, – confident &c. adj.
hope for (desire) [See Desire]; anticipate; presume; promise oneself; expect &c. (look forward to) [See Expectation].
BE HOPEFUL &c. adj.; look on the bright side of, view on the sunny side, voir en couleur de rose [F.], make the best of it, hope for the best; hope against hope; put -a good, – a bold, – the best- face upon; keep one’s spirits up; take heart, – of grace; be of good -heart, – cheer; flatter oneself, “lay the flattering unction to one’s soul” [Hamlet].
catch at a straw, hope against hope, count one’s chickens before they are hatched.
ENCOURAGE, hearten, inspirit; give -, inspire -, raise -, hold out- hope &c. n.; raise expectations; encourage, cheer, assure, reassure, buoy up, embolden; promise, bid fair, augur well, be in a fair way, look up, flatter, tell a flattering tale.
FEARLESS; free from -, exempt from- -fear, – suspicion, – distrust, – despair; unsuspecting, unsuspicious, undespairing, self-reliant; dauntless (courageous) [See Courage].
PROPITIOUS, promising; probable, on the high road to; within sight of -shore, – land; of -, full of- promise; of good omen; auspicious, de bon augure [F.]; reassuring; encouraging, cheering, inspiriting, looking up, bright, roseate, couleur de rose [F.], rose-colored.
- Nil desperandum.—Horace
- Never say die, dum spiro spero, latet scintillula forsan, all is for the best, spero meliora.
- The wish being father to the thought.—Henry IV
- Hope told a flattering tale”.
- Rusticus expectat dum defluat amnis.
- At spes non fracta.
- Ego spem pretio non emo.—Terence
- En Dieu est ma fiance.
- Hope! thou nurse of young desire.—Bickerstaff
- In hoc signo spes mea; in hoc signo vinces.
- La speranza è il pan de’ miseri.
- L’espérance est le songe d’un homme éveillé.
- The mighty hopes that make us men.—Tennyson
- The sickening pang of hope deferred.—Scott