Home › Words › U › underhopeunderhopeunderhope means A lowered expectation or hope.Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, underhope ranks #26,045 of 42,762 for Qualifying.EtymologyPerhaps from Middle English underhopen (“to consider as secondary, discount”), equivalent to under- + hope.nounA lowered expectation or hope.e.g.“Of baffled struggling crowds and broken cries And the great stedfast underhope that never dies.” — 1896, Prosser Hall Frye, The Substance of His House, page 44:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).