overhope

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Excessive hope or anticipation; presumption. uncountable
    — If the good turn out less than you hoped for, good though it be, yet because it is not so good, it seems to you more like a loss than a gain, by reason of the overhope.
  2. Hopefulness; sanguineness. UK,dialectal,uncountable
动词 v.
  1. To hope excessively; presume.
    — If we have overhoped ourselves in the hay we may have done the same with the hogs.
  2. To hope constantly. UK,dialectal,transitive

词形变化

overhopes present,singular,third-person overhoping participle,present overhoped participle,past overhoped past

词汇关系

相关词
underhope

词源

词源 1
From Middle English overhope, oferhope, equivalent to over- + hope.
词源 2
From Middle English overhope, oferhope, equivalent to over- + hope.
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