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Another word for hopeless

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Adjective

  1. Having lost all hope

    See also:

    hope

  2. Offering no hope or expectation of improvement

    See also:

    hope

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Another word for hopeless

Modifier

  1. Despairing

    See also:

    sad

  2. Discouraging

    See also:

    impossible

    futile

    Antonyms:

Synonym Study

  • Desperate implies such despair as makes one resort to extreme measures hunger makes men desperate
  • Despairing implies utter loss of hope and may suggest the extreme dejection that results the despairing lover spoke of suicide
  • Despondent implies a being in very low spirits because of a loss of hope and a sense of futility about continuing one's efforts her rejection of his proposal left him despondent
  • Hopeless means having no expectation of, or showing no sign of, a favorable outcome a hopeless situation
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Sentence Examples

  • I feel so hopeless when I can't help her.

  • This is a hopeless assembly.

  • The lifeless, hopeless look in her gaze was too genuine for even a woman as powerful as she was to manipulate.

  • The attendant made a hopeless gesture.

  • But the dissensions of the native Franks and the crusaders made it hopeless to continue the struggle; and Richard was alarmed by the news which reached him of John's intrigues in England and Normandy.

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