English Explanatory Dictionary

underhope

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A lowered expectation or hope.

Word forms

underhope underhopes

Etymology

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

Related words

overhope
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