About The Word Hopeless
Learn about the word Hopeless to help solve your crossword puzzle. Discover Hopeless definitions and meaning, origins, synonyms, related terms and more at the free Crossword Dictionary.
Hopeless
| 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"less*ly}, adv. -- {Hope"less*ness}, n.
|
More Crossword Puzzle Words
A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z
Cross Word Of The Day
- Copra oil ‐ oil…
- Oxidized ‐ combined with or having undergone a chemical reaction with oxygen;…
- Elf ‐ below 3 kilohertz [n] (folklore) fairies that are somewhat…
- Thanksgiving cactus ‐ South American jointed cactus with usually red flowers; often…
- Trafalgar ‐ a naval battle in 1805 off the SW coast of Spain; the French…
- Arabidopsis lyrata ‐ a small non-invasive cross-pollinating plant with white flowers;…
- Trousered ‐ dressed…
- Pibgorn ‐ an ancient (now obsolete) single-reed woodwind; usually made…
- For the first time ‐ the initial time; "when Felix first saw a…
- Covalent bond ‐ a chemical bond that involves sharing a pair of electrons between…