sperable

hopeful or hoped for

Adjective

  1. hopeful or hoped for
    • wee may either cast it away, if it be found but a Bladder; Or discharge it, of so much as is vaine, and not sperable. - 1622 (date written), Francis [Bacon], “An Advertisement Touching an Holy Warre. […]”, in William...

Origin

From Latin sperabilis. Compare esperance and see -ible.