Optimist's feeling
The crossword clue "Optimist's feeling" is answered by HOPE, a 4-letter entry. Used 7 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1974. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
HOPE
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the HOPE answer page.
Used 7 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1974. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for HOPE
Every other clue in this collection answered by HOPE, most used first.
- Aspiration - used 42 times, most recently in 2026
- Optimistic feeling - used 27 times, most recently in 2026
- Be optimistic - used 22 times, most recently in 2026
- Clinton's birthplace - used 22 times, most recently in 2013
- Actress Lange - used 21 times, most recently in 2023
- Wish earnestly - used 20 times, most recently in 2025
- Cross one's fingers - used 19 times, most recently in 2025
- It springs eternal - used 19 times, most recently in 2025
- Optimism - used 19 times, most recently in 2026
- Rhode Island's motto - used 18 times, most recently in 2023
- Word before and after "against" - used 15 times, most recently in 2025
- Optimistic emotion - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
- Expectation - used 12 times, most recently in 2024
- "__ springs eternal" - used 10 times, most recently in 2024
- Wish - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
- Aspire - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
- Crosby's "Road" partner - used 8 times, most recently in 2017
- Faith, __ and charity - used 8 times, most recently in 2023
- Famous diamond - used 8 times, most recently in 2017
- Feeling of optimism - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
- Great expectation - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- Optimists have it - used 8 times, most recently in 2015
- Desire - used 7 times, most recently in 2021
- Diamond name - used 6 times, most recently in 2008
- Expectancy - used 6 times, most recently in 2007
- Great expectations - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
- Have aspirations - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- Optimistic wish - used 6 times, most recently in 2022
- Show optimism - used 6 times, most recently in 2013
- "The Audacity of --" - used 6 times, most recently in 2015
Related clues
Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.
- Feeling no pain - NUMB, used 38 times
- Jealous feeling - ENVY, used 35 times
- Feeling achy - SORE, used 34 times
- Feeling of hunger - PANG, used 33 times
- Post-workout feeling - ACHE, used 29 times
- Feeling sore - ACHY, used 27 times
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