hopeless
English Thesaurus
1. (informal to emphasize how bad it is) beyond hope of management or reform (adj.all)
| similar | : | bad, |
| definition | : | having undesirable or negative qualities (adj.all) |
| domain usage | : | colloquialism, |
| definition | : | a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech (noun.communication) |
2. without hope because there seems to be no possibility of comfort or success (adj.all)
| similar | : | abject, unhopeful, |
| definition | : | showing utter resignation or hopelessness (adj.all) |
| similar | : | black, bleak, dim, |
| definition | : | offering little or no hope (adj.all) |
| similar | : | despairing, desperate, |
| definition | : | arising from or marked by despair or loss of hope (adj.all) |
| similar | : | forlorn, |
| definition | : | marked by or showing hopelessness (adj.all) |
| similar | : | futureless, |
| definition | : | having no prospect or hope of a future (adj.all) |
| similar | : | helpless, lost, |
| definition | : | unable to function; without help (adj.all) |
| similar | : | insoluble, |
| definition | : | without hope of solution (adj.all) |
| also | : | discouraging, |
| definition | : | depriving of confidence or hope or enthusiasm and hence often deterring action (adj.all) |
| also | : | pessimistic, |
| definition | : | expecting the worst possible outcome (adj.all) |
| also | : | impossible, |
| definition | : | not capable of occurring or being accomplished or dealt with (adj.all) |
3. certain to fail (adj.all)
| similar | : | impossible, |
| definition | : | not capable of occurring or being accomplished or dealt with (adj.all) |
4. of a person unable to do something skillfully (adj.all)
| similar | : | unskilled, |
| definition | : | not having or showing or requiring special skill or proficiency (adj.all) |
5. without hope because there seems to be no possibility of comfort or success (adj.all)
| antonym | : | hopeful, |
| definition | : | having or manifesting hope (adj.all) |
| derivation | : | hopelessness, hopelessness, |
| definition | : | the despair you feel when you have abandoned hope of comfort or success (noun.feeling) |
| antonym | : | hopeful, |
| definition | : | having or manifesting hope (adj.all) |
| derivation | : | hopelessness, hopelessness, |
| definition | : | the despair you feel when you have abandoned hope of comfort or success (noun.feeling) |
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