Definition of Hopefully

1. Adverb. With hope; in a hopeful manner. "We searched hopefully for a good position"

Partainyms: Hopeful
Antonyms: Hopelessly

2. Adverb. It is hoped. "Hopefully the weather will be fine on Sunday"

Definition of Hopefully

1. Adverb. It is hoped that; I hope; we hope. ¹

2. Adverb. In a hopeful manner. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Hopefully

1. [adv]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hopefully

hopbine
hopbines
hopdog
hopdogs
hope
hope against hope
hope chest
hope chests
hoped
hoped-for
hoped for
hopeful
hopefull
hopefuller
hopefullest
hopefully
hopefulness
hopefulnesses
hopefuls
hopeite
hopeless
hopelessly
hopelessness
hopelessnesses
hopene
hoper
hopers
hopes
hopest
hopeth

Literary usage of Hopefully

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage by Inc. Merriam-Webster (1994)
"July—August 1970 With the hope of has some slight variations, such as with little hope of with any hope of and with its hope of hopefully No one knows why a ..."

2. A Cyclopedia of Missions: Containing a Comprehensive View of Missionary by Harvey Newcomb (1855)
"Some who listened to his religious instructions became serious and hopefully pious. This awakened the opposition of the papists, who complained of him to ..."

3. The Missionary Gazetteer: Comprising a Geographical and Statistical Account ...by Bela Bates Edwards, Charles Williams by Bela Bates Edwards, Charles Williams (1832)
"Eight or ten were hopefully born into the kingdom in one week. What is rather surprizing, all except two or three of those who entertain hope, ..."

4. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1865)
"... when well established, for that which we all yet hopefully labour for, however slow its progress—a really inductive science of medicine. HH ART. XXII. ..."

5. A Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to the Present by Edmund Clarence Stedman, Arthur Stedman (1894)
"Hopefully WAITING. [Verses, by Anson DF Randolph. 1855.] NOT as you meant, O learned man and good, Do I accept thy words of hope and rest; God, knowing all, ..."

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