Word before and after "against"

The answer

HOPE

4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the HOPE answer page.

Used 15 times across 14 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1994. It appears in 6 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
• 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
• Optimist's feeling - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• 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.

• Against - ANTI, used 365 times
• And others: Abbr. - ETAL, used 329 times
• __ and crafts - ARTS, used 303 times
• Golden Rule word - UNTO, used 299 times
• Division word - INTO, used 273 times
• Black-and-white cookie - OREO, used 272 times

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