Adjective : His hopeful words stimulated optimism. ,a hopeful prospect.    From Dictionary.com. 

Noun : the Democratic presidential hopeful.    From Dictionary.com. 

PCB 'unhopeful' of bilateral India-Pak series in near future.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7] Reference

Her small eyes were unhopeful and her lips ungenerous.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine]

But I am still really unhopeful about ever getting a flight home.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mecca & the Hajj: Lessons From the Islamic School of Hard Knocks, Episode One] Reference

I was unhopeful; Loman's estimation of the odds seemed about right.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 9th Directive]

‘Yet however you read it, it seems not unhopeful,’ said Legolas.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lord of the Rings]

You mean spirited, harsh, unhopeful view of the world is history dcshungu.    From Wordnik.com.  [Polls: Hillary Narrowly Edges Obama In Four States, Huckabee Surging With GOP] Reference

So far, unfortunately, the Administration is sending unhopeful signs of non-change.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harry Shearer: New Orleans: Where Accountability Failed, Liability Follows] Reference

The soldiers attacked again, and Elend raised his sword in a determined, but unhopeful, posture.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mistborn] Reference

Referring to exports, Mr Keys said he was not unhopeful about the country's ability to find markets.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

She told all this with the resigned and unhopeful manner of one who has always been accustomed to suffer.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

They told us that we and Clinton were cold and unhopeful and that emotions and inspiration were more important.    From Wordnik.com.  [Twisted little people] Reference

Evolution, and that in a not unhopeful form, the hope for an advance in the race at least, if not in the individuals now living.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recent Developments in European Thought] Reference

The Mission of San Fernando, some twenty miles northwest of Los Angeles, has more than once been the scene of these unhopeful quests.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Penance of Magdalena & Other Tales of the California Missions] Reference

But his final parting with Barker was not unhopeful.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Minister's Charge] Reference

Kent's smile was a fair measure of his unhopeful mood.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Grafters] Reference

And in this unhopeful frame of mind he dropped off in sleep.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner] Reference

She had the same dull and unhopeful look that her house had.    From Wordnik.com.  [Queechy] Reference

It was impossible to remain unhopeful in such goodly company.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pearl of Pearl Island] Reference

"I will go and see," and I ran out again, still not unhopeful.    From Wordnik.com.  [Carette of Sark] Reference

No stir, and the closed house door looking forbidding and unhopeful.    From Wordnik.com.  [Melbourne House] Reference

But withal, the pre-Christian conception of death was joyless and unhopeful.    From Wordnik.com.  [Some Facts of Religion and of Life: Sermons Preached before Her Majesty the Queen in Scotland, 1866-76.] Reference

To the last her periods of mental gestation were long, painful, and unhopeful.    From Wordnik.com.  [Studies in Early Victorian Literature] Reference

With Bacon's death there fell to pieces all this hopeful or unhopeful movement.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pioneers of the Old South: a chronicle of English colonial beginnings] Reference

But now I noticed that the pseudo-bandits wore a watchful and not unhopeful air.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tish] Reference

Books she sought in every accessible, and found occasionally in an unhopeful quarter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heather and Snow] Reference

"Don't signify whether a man's killed one way or another," was the somewhat unhopeful answer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hills of the Shatemuc] Reference

Now, in the most unhopeful struggle it is often the thing least hoped for that comes to pass.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Fool for Love] Reference

At the entrance to the court the thief was standing, leaning against the wall with fevered, unhopeful waiting in his eyes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dawn of a To-morrow] Reference

Jobst tried at first to do some governing; but finding all very anarchic, grew unhopeful; took to making matters easy for himself.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07] Reference

She herself was not at all uncomfortable, because, while she saw the whole state of affairs, she was not unhopeful of coping with it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rest Harrow A Comedy of Resolution] Reference

"Sir, things are not so unhopeful as Senators seem to think.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography.] Reference

If I allow it to sink in it’s hard to not get angry, depressed, and unhopeful.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-02-01] Reference

A sad and unhopeful view of the world around and before her -- which she lamented in her niece.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Siren] Reference

So why does he sound so unhopeful?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Literacy News from Digg – 250th Edition « Digg.com Digest « Digests « Literacy News] Reference

Why was she engaged in this unhopeful cause?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Stars Are Also Fire]

Commence: Sem -- "and Mr. Pericles hummed the opening bar, not as an unhopeful man would do.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sandra Belloni — Complete] Reference

In most unhopeful pictures.    From Wordnik.com.  [Collected Poems In Two Volumes, Vol. II] Reference

Ah, then come sad, unhopeful hours!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The poetical works of George MacDonald in two volumes — Volume 1] Reference

Determined but unhopeful; desperate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume II.] Reference