Not a one will wish you luck or hope that you will keep on writing unless you have political affiliations in which case these will rally around and speak of you and Homer, Balzac, Zola and Link Steffens. And hopefully there is enough background immunity so that we don't wind up with a lot of hospitalizations.Īll the critics who could not make their reputations by discovering you are hoping to make them by predicting hopefully your approaching impotence, failure and general drying up of natural juices. that over the next couple of weeks, we are going to see an uptick in cases. Hopefully we will be able to hand out a lot of wedding favors.įrankly, we didn't treat their candidates for these positions, the way they are treating ours, i would like to see us hopefully break through and change that. but using ''hopefully is more concise.Ĭompare to the usage of regretfully, which does have the substitute regrettably.I just tried to explain to them some of the things that - my life experiences - that have helped me to stay humble and to stay hungry throughout my career, i think they have enjoyed it and hopefully some of them take it with them as they go throughout their life and throughout their careers. The Careful Writer: A Modern Guide to English Usage. ''It is hoped that'' and ''if hopes are realized'' would be impersonal and have been suggested as alternatives to ''hopefully'', Theodore Menline Bernstein. Only the latter could be continued with a clause such as ''but it isn’t likely''.” ''Hopefully'' is also less personal than ''I hope'' or ''we hope''. “Someone who says Hopefully, the treaty will be ratified'' makes a hopeful prediction about the fate of the treaty, whereas someone who says ''I hope'' (or ''We hope'' or ''It is hoped'') ''the treaty will be ratified'' expresses a bald statement about what is desired. “here is no precise substitute,” says the American Heritage Dictionary. It was not until the 20C that they began to be used in other situations. Sentence adverbs have played a part in English since the 17C but have been limited largely to use wherein they retain their original definition (e.g. For example, Hopefully, he will save money for the deposit on a new house'' can mean either that it is hoped that he will save the money (in which ''hopefully'' is a sentence adverb modifying the entire sentence) or that he is saving money in a hopeful manner (in which ''hopefully'' modifies ''will save''). The dispute over the use of sentence adverbs is born largely of the fact that in using an existing adverb to apply to not only one verb but a whole sentence, the meaning of the word is altered, which, in certain situations, can lead to ambiguity. 126–49 ''Merriam-Webster, on the other hand, calls the usage "entirely standard", and notes that it has been used since the early 18th century, having been commonly used in American English since the 1930s, and gained significant popularity in the 1960s. Stanley Whitley, "''Hopefully'': A Shibboleth in the English Adverb System", ''American Speech'', (58) 2 (Summer 1983), pp. Unlike for many such shifts in meaning that occur in English, the portion of the ''American Heritage Dictionary'''s Usage Panel that condones the second sense of the word has decreased from 1969 to 2000, offering the explanation that this particular usage has become a shibboleth. Many adverbs are used as sentence modifiers with somewhat less frequent objection such as interestingly'', ''frankly'', ''clearly'', ''luckily'', and ''unfortunately''. Usage notesThe second definition (“I hope that”, used as a ( sentence adverb)) has been criticized by some usage writers although it is by far the most commonly used sense of the word. 11 Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? Hope thou in God. (obsolete) To place confidence to trust with confident expectation of good usually followed by in.
#SYNONYM FOR HOPEFULLY FULL#
To be optimistic be full of hope have hopes., passage=He looked round the poor room, at the distempered walls, and the bad engravings in meretricious frames, the crinkly paper and wax flowers on the chiffonier and he thought of a room like Father Bryan's, with panelling, with cut glass, with tulips in silver pots, such a room as he had hoped to have for his own.}} Another word for Hopefully Words for Hopefully (other words for Hopefully). *, chapter=10, title= The Mirror and the Lamp.To want something to happen, with a sense of expectation that it might.
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