Hopeless

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  • adjective. undefined
  • adjective. Having no hope; despairing.
  • adjective. Characterized by despair.
  • adjective. undefined
  • adjective. Having no possibility of being solved or dealt with; impossible.
  • adjective. Having no hope or chance of changing or improving.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Without hope; having no expectation of gaining or attaining the thing desired; despairing.
  • Affording no ground of hope or expectation of good; despaired of: as, a hopeless case; a hopeless scamp.
  • Unhoped for; unexpected.
  • Synonyms Desponding, discouraged.
  • Incurable, irremediable, incorrigible, irreparable.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing.
  • adjective. Giving no ground of hope; promising nothing desirable; desperate.
  • adjective. Unhoped for; despaired of.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing.
  • adjective. Giving no ground of hope; promising nothing desirable; desperate.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. certain to fail
  • adjective. of a person unable to do something skillfully
  • adjective. without hope because there seems to be no possibility of comfort or success
  • adjective. (informal to emphasize how bad it is) beyond hope of management or reform
  • Word Usage
    "I am going to begin over with what you call the hopeless experiment -- and even now I think I have a chance ... a fighting chance of winning."
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    hopeful  
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    abject  bad  black  bleak  despairing  
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