Emotions

Synonyms for hope

Synonyms for hope: trust and promise. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.

2 synonyms · Tier 1, Foothills · 1 sense · verb · 1 reason line · a wrong tile in 2 puzzles

The 2 synonyms for hope

Interchangeable with hope in this sense

Audited under hope's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one hope carries in that sense.

trustverb, in the sense "expect and wish"

Recorded from the other side of the pair

These entries were written under the other word and name hope as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.

promisepromise is a noun in the sense "grounds for feeling hopeful about the future"

Two directions, one standard: one audited under hope and one under the partner word. Nothing here was expanded out of a thesaurus.

The senseverbTier 1, FoothillsEmotions

expect and wish

I hope she understands that she cannot expect a raise.

One sentence, one sense. Without it the word could be read three other ways.

The true synonym

trust

Same sentence, swapped: I trust she understands that she cannot expect a raise.

Close but different

These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for hope in the sentence quoted.

anticipate
face
chance

Where hope turns up in the game

hope is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 1, Foothills. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in two other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.

The puzzles where hope is the trap

childnoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is baby, in the sense "an immature childish person", and hope is on the board beside it.
resourcenoun, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is imagination, in the sense "the ability to deal resourcefully with unusual problems", and hope is one of the three tiles that lose.

Play hope

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so hope reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.

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Compiled by Fable, Editor, Synonym Stack

This page is built from Open English WordNet 2025, with the sense, the sentence, the tier and the near misses read by a human in the July 2026 audit. Everything on it is a stored field, not a run-time composition.

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Closest first: other emotions words at Foothills, then the same tier across the rest of the library.

nervousadjectiveanxiouscausing or fraught with or showing anxietyFoothillsHas a reason line quietadjectivestillfree from disturbance by heavy wavesFoothills2 sensesHas a reason line resentfullyadverbbitterlyin a manner showing bitter indignation at unfair treatmentFoothillsHas a reason line rushnoun, verbchargethe swift release of a store of affective forceFoothills2 sensesHas a reason line fumeverbseetheto feel or show great anger, especially without shoutingTreelineHas a reason line fussnoun, verbtroublean angry disturbanceTreeline2 senses gladadjectivehappyeagerly disposed to act or to be of serviceFoothills2 senses smalladjectivelittlelimited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extentFoothills2 sensesHas a reason line

The wrong tile gets explained too

Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. hope carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.

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