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Hopeless Definition And Meaning
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"lessly}, adv. -- {Hope"lessness}, n.

Hopeless Definition And Meaning

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"

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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