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high hopes

NOUN
anticipation
Synonyms
STRONGEST
apprehension hope joy prospect
STRONG
contemplation expectancy foresight foretaste impatience outlook preconception premonition preoccupation prescience presentiment promise trust
WEAK
awaiting looking forward
Antonyms
STRONG
ignorance
WEAK
amazement astonishment doubt fear sensation surprise unreadiness wonder

Example Sentences

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In early 2025, Treasury Wine Estates, like other Australian exporters, had high hopes for a return of the Chinese market.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 24, 2026

Though he posted a .190/.292/.310 slash line at the big league level, prospect analyst Jim Callis still has high hopes for Freeland.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 4, 2026

CEO Mike Doustdar told analysts on a conference call that they still have high hopes for CagriSema.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 23, 2026

"We expect big demand. We have high hopes," director Oksana Holikova says, leading me towards the laboratory where the "biomaterial" is collected, prepared, and then stored.

From BBC • Feb. 16, 2026

I filled the forms out in secret so my foster parents wouldn’t know—and with no high hopes.

From "Lost Boy, Lost Girl" by John Bul Dau

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.