Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget
507. hope for &c. (desire) 865; anticipate. be hopeful &c. adj.;
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look on the bright side of, view on the sunny side, voir en
couleur de rose[Fr], make the best of it, hope for the best; put a
good face upon, put a bold face upon, put the best face upon; keep
one's spirits up; take heart, take heart of grace; be of good
heart, be of good cheer; flatter oneself, "lay the flattering
unction to one's soul" catch at a straw[hamlet], hope against
hope, reckon one's chickens before they are hatched, count one's
chickens before they are hatched. [cause hope] give hope, inspire
hope, raise hope, hold out hope &c. n.; promise, bid fair, augur
well, be in a fair way, look up, flatter, tell a flattering tale;
raise expectations[sentient subject]; encourage, cheer, assure,
reassure, buoy up, embolden. Adj. hoping &c. v.; in hopes &c. n.;
hopeful, confident; secure &c. (certain) 484; sanguine, in good
heart, buoyed up, buoyant, elated, flushed, exultant,
enthusiastic; heartsome[obs3]; utopian. unsuspecting,
unsuspicious; fearless, free from fear, free from suspicion, free
from distrust, free from despair, exempt from fear, exempt from
suspicion, exempt from distrust, exempt from despair;
undespairing[obs3], self reliant. probable, on the high road to;
within sight of shore, within sight of land; promising,
propitious; of promise, full of promise; of good omen; auspicious,
de bon augure[Fr]; reassuring; encouraging, cheering, inspiriting,
looking up, bright, roseate, couleur de rose[Fr], rose- colored.
Adv. hopefully &c. adj. Int. God speed! Phr. nil desperandum
[Lat][Horace]; never say die, dum spiro spero[Lat], latet
scintillula forsan[Lat], all is for the best, spero meliora[Lat];
every cloud has a silver lining; "the wish being father to the
thought" [Henry IV]; "hope told a flattering tale"; rusticus
expectat dum defluat amnis[Lat][obs3]. at spes non fracta[Lat];
ego spem prietio non emo [Lat][Terence]; un Dieu est ma
fiance[Fr]; "hope! thou nurse of young desire" [Bickerstaff]; in
hoc signo spes mea[Lat]; in hoc signo vinces[Lat]; la speranza e
il pan de miseri[It]; l'esperance est le songe d'un homme
eveille[Fr]; "the mighty hopes that make us men" [Tennyson]; "the
sickening pang of hope deferred" [Scott].
#859. [Absence, want or loss of hope.] Hopelessness.—N.
hopelessness &c. adj.; despair, desperation; despondency, depression
&c. (dejection) 837; pessimism, pessimist; Job's comforter; bird of bad
omen, bird of ill omen. abandonment, desolation; resignation,
surrender, submission &c. 725. hope deferred, dashed hopes; vain
expectation &c. (disappointment) 509. airy hopes &c. &c 858; forlorn
hope; gone case, dead duck, gone coon* [U.S.]; goner*; bad job, bad
business; enfant perdu[Fr]; gloomy horizon, black spots in the horizon;
slough of Despond, cave of Despair; immedicabile vulnus[Lat]. V.
despair; lose all hope, give up all hope, abandon all hope, relinquish
all hope, lose the hope of, give up the hope of, abandon the hope of,
relinquish the hope of; give up, give over; yield to despair; falter;
despond &c. (be dejected) 837; jeter le manche apres la cognee[Fr].
inspire despair, drive to despair &c. n.; disconcert; dash one's hopes,
crush one's hopes, destroy one's hopes; hope against hope. abandon;
resign, surrender, submit &c. 725. Adj. hopeless, desperate,
despairing, gone, in despair, au desespoir[Fr], forlorn, desolate;
inconsolable &c. (dejected) 837; broken hearted. unpromising,
unpropitious; inauspicious, ill-omened, threatening, clouded over. out
of the question, not to be thought of; impracticable &c. 471; past
hope, past cure, past mending, past recall; at one's last gasp &c.
(death) 360; given up, given over. incurable, cureless, immedicable,
remediless, beyond remedy; incorrigible; irreparable, irremediable,
irrecoverable, irreversible, irretrievable, irreclaimable,
irredeemable, irrevocable; ruined, undone; immitigable. Phr. "lasciate
ogni speranza voi ch'entrate" [Dante]; its days are numbered; the worst
come to the worst; "no change, no pause, no hope, yet I endure"
[Shelley]; "O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon" [Milton]; "mene
mene tekel upharson" [Old Testament].
#860. Fear.—N. fear, timidity, diffidence, want of confidence;
apprehensiveness, fearfulness &c. adj.; solicitude, anxiety, care,
apprehension, misgiving; feeze [obs3][U.S.]; mistrust &c. (doubt) 485;
suspicion, qualm; hesitation &c. (irresolution) 605. nervousness,
restlessness &c. adj.; inquietude, disquietude, worry, concern;
batophobia[obs3]; heartquake[obs3]; flutter, trepidation, fear and
trembling, perturbation, tremor, quivering, shaking, trembling,
throbbing heart, palpitation, ague fit, cold sweat; abject fear &c.
(cowardice) 862; mortal funk, heartsinking[obs3], despondency; despair
&c. 859. fright; affright, affrightment[obs3]; boof alarm[obs3][U.S.],
dread, awe, terror, horror, dismay, consternation, panic, scare,
stampede [of horses]. intimidation, terrorism, reign of terror. [Object
of fear] bug bear, bugaboo; scarecrow; hobgoblin &c. (demon) 980;
nightmare, Gorgon, mormo[obs3], ogre, Hurlothrumbo[obs3], raw head and
bloody bones, fee-faw-fum, bete noire[Fr], enfant terrible[Fr].
alarmist &c. (coward) 862. V. fear, stand in awe of; be afraid &c.
adj.; have qualms &c. n.; apprehend, sit upon thorns, eye askance;
distrust &c. (disbelieve) 485. hesitate &c. (be irresolute) 605;
falter, funk, cower, crouch; skulk &c. (cowardice) 862; "let 'I dare
not' wait upon 'I would'"; take fright, take alarm; start, wince,
flinch, shy, shrink; fly &c. (avoid) 623. tremble, shake; shiver,
shiver in one's shoes; shudder, flutter; shake like an aspen leaf,
tremble like an aspen leaf, tremble all over; quake, quaver, quiver,
quail. grow pale, turn pale; blench, stand aghast; not dare to say
one's soul is one's own. inspire fear, excite fear, inspire awe, excite
awe; raise aprehensions[obs3]; be in a daze, bulldoze [U. S.]; faze,
feeze [obs3][U. S.]; give an alarm, raise an alarm, sound an alarm;
alarm, startle, scare, cry "wolf," disquiet, dismay; fright, frighten,
terrify; astound; fright from one's propriety; fright out of one's
senses, fright out of one's wits, fright out of one's seven senses;
awe; strike all of a heap, strike an awe into, strike terror; harrow up
the soul, appall, unman, petrify, horrify; pile on the agony. make
one's flesh creep, make one's hair stand on end, make one's blood run
cold, make one's teeth chatter; take away one's breath, stop one's
breath; make one tremble &c. haunt; prey on the mind, weigh on the
mind. put in fear, put in bodily fear; terrorize, intimidate, cow,
daunt, overawe, abash, deter, discourage; browbeat, bully; threaten &c.
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