- hoping
- Synonyms and related words:appetitive, aspiring, assured, confident, desiderative, desireful, desiring, desirous, eager, expectant, fond, full of hope, hopeful, hormic, in good heart, in hopes, lascivious, libidinal, libidinous, lickerish, lustful, needing, of good cheer, of good hope, optative, sanguine, tempted, undespairing, wanting, wishing
Moby Thesaurus. Grady Ward. 1996.