Without hope; despairing; not expecting anything positive. / Giving no ground of hope; promising nothing desirable; desperate. / Without talent, not skilled. / (of an adverse condition) Incurable.

(intransitive, transitive) To want something to happen, with a sense of expectation that it might. / To be optimistic; be full of hope; have hopes.

(countable or uncountable) The feeling of trust, confidence, belief or expectation that something wished for can or will happen. / (countable) The actual thing wished for.

(Northern England, Scotland) A hollow; a valley, especially the upper end of a narrow mountain valley when it is nearly encircled by smooth, green slopes; a combe.

A sloping plain between mountain ridges. / (Scotland) A small bay; an inlet; a haven.

A child's game, in which a player, hopping on one foot, drives a stone from one compartment to another of a figure traced or scotched on the ground.

(intransitive, figuratively) To move by hopping. / (intransitive, figuratively) To move back and forth between adjacent patterns by hopping.

One who or that which hops. / A temporary storage bin, filled from the top and emptied from the bottom, often funnel-shaped.

A Sri Lankan pancake made from a fermented batter of rice flour, coconut milk, and palm toddy or yeast.

feeling hope / inspiring hope