About The Word Hopeless
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Hopeless
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What's The Definition Of Hopeless?
[adj] (informal to emphasize how bad it is) beyond hope of management or reform; "she handed me a hopeless jumble of papers"; "he is a hopeless romantic"
[adj] without hope because there seems to be no possibility of comfort or success; "in an agony of hopeless grief"; "with a hopeless sigh he sat down" [adj] certain to fail; "the situation is hopeless" [adj] of a person unable to do something skillfully; "I'm hopeless at mathematics" Synonyms | Synonyms for Hopeless: abject | bad | black | bleak | despairing | desperate | despondent | dim | forlorn | futureless | gloomy | grim | heartsick | helpless | incurable | insoluble | lost | resigned | unhopeful | unskilled Related Terms | Find terms related to Hopeless: absurd | affording no hope | aloof | apathetic | bad | barred | benumbed | blah | blase | bleak | bootless | cheerless | closed-out | comatose | comfortless | contrary to reason | cureless | deadly | deficient | dejected | depressed | desensitized | despaired of | despairing | desperate | despondent | desponding | detached | disconsolate | discouraged | disinterested | dismal | done for | downcast | dull | dying | excluded | expiring | facing death | fatal | forlorn | funereal | futile | given up | gloomy | glum | going | gone | grim | heartless | hebetudinous | hoper | immedicable | impossible | impracticable | in a stupor | in articulo mortis | in despair | in extremis | inadequate | incapable of life | incompetent | inconceivable | inconsolable | incorrigible | incurable | indifferent | inept | inferior | insoluble | insouciant | irredeemable | irremediable | irreparable | irretrievable | languid | Laodicean | lethal | lethargic | listless | logically impossible | lost | low | lugubrious | melancholy | miserable | moribund | morose | near death | nonchalant | nonviable | not possible | numb | numbed | Olympian | oxymoronic | paradoxical | passive | phlegmatic | pluckless | pointless | Pollyanna | poor | preposterous | prohibited | resigned | ridiculous | ruled-out | sad | self-contradictory | sinking | slack | slipping | slipping away | sluggish | soporific | sorrowful | spiritless | spunkless | stoic | stupefied | supine | terminal | torpid | unavailing | uncaring | unconcerned | uncorrectable | unfit | unhappy | unhopeful | unimaginable | uninterested | unqualified | unthinkable | unworkable | useless | vain | withdrawn | without hope | woebegone | worthless | wretched See Also | discouraging | impossible | pessimistic Hopeless In Webster's Dictionary \Hope"less\, a.
1. Destitute of hope; having no expectation of good;
despairing.
I am a woman, friendless, hopeless. --Shak.
2. Giving no ground of hope; promising nothing desirable;
desperate; as, a hopeless cause.
The hopelessword of ``never to return'' Breathe I
against thee, upon pain of life. --Shak.
3. Unhoped for; despaired of. [Obs.] --Marston. --
{Hope"less*ly}, adv. -- {Hope"less*ness}, n.
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