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hoped-for

hoped-for is the alternative spelling of hoped for.

Meaning of hoped for

Adjective

hoped for (comparative more hoped for, superlative most hoped for)

  1. desired; wished for.
    • There had never before been a known case of fraudulent claim of this sort. The man received, not his hoped-for £4,000, but eighteen months imprisonment instead.1958 May, Rev. A. W. V. Mace, “North Wales and the "Irish Mail"”, in Railway Magazine, page 310

Questions about hoped-for

What is hoped-for the alternative spelling of?
Hoped-for is the alternative spelling of hoped for.

Words near hoped-for in the dictionary

  1. hopeaphenol
  2. hopecore
  3. hoped
  4. hoped against hope
  5. hoped for
  6. hoped-for
  7. Hopedale
  8. hopedict
  9. hopedicted
  10. hopedicting
  11. hopediction

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hoped-for (page history and authors); hoped for (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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