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Hope

A sloping plain between mountain ridges.

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Broader term 18

Anticipation 76% connected

The act of anticipating, taking up, placing, or considering something beforehand, or before the proper time in natural order.

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Await 76% connected

To watch for; to look out for.

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Desire 76% connected

To long for; to wish for earnestly; to covet.

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Expect 76% connected

To wait for; to await.

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Expectancy 76% connected

The act of expecting ; expectation.

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Expectation 76% connected

The act or state of expecting or looking forward to an event as about to happen.

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Feeling 76% connected

of Feel

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Individual 76% connected

Not divided, or not to be divided; existing as one entity, or distinct being or object; single; one; as, an individual man, animal, or city.

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Look 76% connected

To direct the eyes for the purpose of seeing something; to direct the eyes toward an object; to observe with the eyes while keeping them directed; --…

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Mortal 76% connected

Subject to death; destined to die; as, man is mortal.

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Outlook 76% connected

To face down; to outstare.

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Person 76% connected

A character or part, as in a play; a specific kind or manifestation of individual character, whether in real life, or in literary or dramatic represe…

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Plan 76% connected

A draught or form; properly, a representation drawn on a plane, as a map or a chart; especially, a top view, as of a machine, or the representation o…

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Prospect 76% connected

That which is embraced by eye in vision; the region which the eye overlooks at one time; view; scene; outlook.

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Somebody 76% connected

A person unknown or uncertain; a person indeterminate; some person.

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Soul 76% connected

Sole.

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Wait 76% connected

To watch; to observe; to take notice.

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Want 76% connected

The state of not having; the condition of being without anything; absence or scarcity of what is needed or desired; deficiency; lack; as, a want of p…

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Narrower term 3

Encouragement 76% connected

The act of encouraging; incitement to action or to practice; as, the encouragement of youth in generosity.

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Optimism 76% connected

The opinion or doctrine that everything in nature, being the work of God, is ordered for the best, or that the ordering of things in the universe is…

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Rainbow 76% connected

A bow or arch exhibiting, in concentric bands, the several colors of the spectrum, and formed in the part of the hemisphere opposite to the sun by th…

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Desire 74% connected

To long for; to wish for earnestly; to covet.

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Desire 74% connected

To long for; to wish for earnestly; to covet.

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Hoper 74% connected

One who hopes.

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Hoper 74% connected

One who hopes.

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Promise 74% connected

In general, a declaration, written or verbal, made by one person to another, which binds the person who makes it to do, or to forbear to do, a specif…

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Promise 74% connected

In general, a declaration, written or verbal, made by one person to another, which binds the person who makes it to do, or to forbear to do, a specif…

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Trust 74% connected

Assured resting of the mind on the integrity, veracity, justice, friendship, or other sound principle, of another person; confidence; reliance; relia…

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Trust 74% connected

Assured resting of the mind on the integrity, veracity, justice, friendship, or other sound principle, of another person; confidence; reliance; relia…

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Synonym 3

Desire 92% connected

To long for; to wish for earnestly; to covet.

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Promise 92% connected

In general, a declaration, written or verbal, made by one person to another, which binds the person who makes it to do, or to forbear to do, a specif…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Trust 92% connected

Assured resting of the mind on the integrity, veracity, justice, friendship, or other sound principle, of another person; confidence; reliance; relia…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Antonym 2

Despair 94% connected

To be hopeless; to have no hope; to give up all hope or expectation; -- often with of.

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Despair 94% connected

To be hopeless; to have no hope; to give up all hope or expectation; -- often with of.

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