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Definition of overhope

4 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

(uncountable)Excessive hope or anticipation; presumption.

“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.”

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noun

(uncountable)Excessive hope or anticipation; presumption.

“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.”
(UK, dialectal, uncountable)Hopefulness; sanguineness.

verb

To hope excessively; presume.

“If we have overhoped ourselves in the hay we may have done the same with the hogs.”
“I'll cast this observation a little too broadly to make the point clearer: many principals "overhoped" that computers would have miraculous effects on all students exposed to them even if only for a few minutes per week, and now finding …”
(UK, dialectal, transitive)To hope constantly.

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

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