Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

underhope

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: un-der-hope
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A lowered expectation or hope.

Countable; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"Of baffled struggling crowds and broken cries And the great stedfast underhope that never dies."
"Yesterday they went with underhopes of home And mostly glad to go - how impotent to save […]"
"He also has a greater hope, what he might have called a tremulous underhope: that the neighbours who say that 'he hears it not now' might be mistaken."

Etymology

Perhaps from Middle English underhopen (“to consider as secondary, discount”), equivalent to under- + hope.

Origin

Source language: Middle English

Word Breakdown

Prefix: under-
Root: underhopen

Usage

Inflected Forms

underhopes (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

overhope

Questions

What does underhope mean?: A lowered expectation or hope.
Where does underhope come from?: It is traced to Middle English.

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