Word.ws English Dictionary

underhopes

underhopes is the plural of underhope.

Meaning of underhope

Noun

underhope (countable and uncountable, plural underhopes)

  1. A lowered expectation or hope.
    • Of baffled struggling crowds and broken cries
      And the great stedfast underhope that never dies.1896, Prosser Hall Frye, The Substance of His House, page 44

Questions about underhopes

What is underhopes the plural of?
Underhopes is the plural of underhope.

Words near underhopes in the dictionary

  1. underhook
  2. underhooked
  3. underhooking
  4. underhooks
  5. underhope
  6. underhopes
  7. underhopped
  8. underhorsed
  9. underhorseman
  10. underhorsemen
  11. underhose

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: underhopes (page history and authors); underhope (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “underhopes.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/underhopes. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.