DESPAIRING Antonyms

• tending to float on a liquid or rise in air or gas

• characterized by liveliness and lightheartedness

• being full of or promoting cheer; having or showing good spirits

• pleasantly (even unrealistically) optimistic

• having or marked by confidence or assurance

• persuaded of; very sure

• not liable to error in judgment or action

• satisfied or showing satisfaction with things as they are

• (usually plural) everything that is included in a collection and that is held or included in something

• the state of being contented with your situation in life

• content communicating a message; what something is about

• the proportion of a substance that is contained in a mixture or alloy etc.

• the amount that can be contained

• the sum or range of what has been perceived, discovered, or learned

• something (a person or object or scene) selected by an artist or photographer for graphic representation

• satisfy in a limited way

• make content

• exultantly proud and joyful; in high spirits

• full of high-spirited delight

• inspired with confidence

• having or showing great excitement and interest

• completed to perfection

• having or manifesting hope

• an ambitious and aspiring young person

• likely to turn out well in the future

• being of such surpassing excellence as to suggest inspiration by the gods

• full of or producing joy

• full of high-spirited delight

• joyful and proud especially because of triumph or success

• full of high-spirited delight

• expecting the best in this best of all possible worlds

• expecting the best

• characterized by or displaying affirmation or acceptance or certainty etc.

• indicating existence or presence of a suspected condition or pathogen

• of or relating to positivism

• reckoned, situated or tending in the direction which naturally or arbitrarily is taken to indicate increase or progress or onward motion

• the primary form of an adjective or adverb; denotes a quality without qualification, comparison, or relation to increase or diminution

• a film showing a photographic image whose tones correspond to those of the original subject

• persuaded of; very sure

• involving advantage or good

• formally laid down or imposed

• impossible to deny or disprove

• greater than zero

• having a positive charge

• marked by excessive confidence

• having confidence restored; freed from anxiety

• filled with satisfaction

• allayed

• a specific instance of feeling hopeful

• United States comedian (born in England) who appeared in films with Bing Crosby (1903-2003)

• the general feeling that some desire will be fulfilled

• grounds for feeling hopeful about the future

• someone (or something) on which expectations are centered

• one of the three Christian virtues

• expect and wish

• be optimistic; be full of hope; have hopes

• intend with some possibility of fulfilment