Hopeless synonyms
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Part of speech:
Causing or suggesting dejection; cheerless
Without hope; desperate
In low spirits; depressed; disheartened
The definition of melancholy is someone or something that is sad or gloomy.
The definition of cynical is having a belief that people only do things to serve their own needs.
Having no useful result; ineffectual:
Making or implying threats:
past cure
Discouraging
Unhappy, and blaming oneself rather than others; despondent
unreclaimable
Not reclaimable.
to no avail
Discouraging
Discouraging
The definition of abandoned is something that is unwanted and left behind.
Carried away; absorbed:
Having no value, use, or significance; worthless; useless
recidivous
Prone to relapse into immoral or antisocial behavior.
Of no value or use; worthless
Having no purpose or reason; pointless; to no avail:
Not working (machinery, etc)
Ineffectual; useless:
Low; despicable:
Not surmountable; that cannot be passed over or overcome; insuperable
sad (related)
Causing sorrow; lamentable.
Characterized by or resulting from despair; hopeless:
Extreme, in a bad sense; outrageous.
The definition of sinister is a person or thing that threatens harm or misfortune.
Not willing to change or be persuaded; resolute:
That cannot be revoked, recalled, or undone; unalterable
Being such that a cure is impossible; not curable:
past hope
Discouraging
(Archaic) Lacking in sense; foolish
That cannot be turned inside out, run backward, etc.
Not reparable; that cannot be repaired, mended, remedied, etc.
Incapable of being reclaimed; not reclaimable; unable to be restored or redeemed; as, an irreclaimable criminal; irreclaimable land.
Not recoverable or admitting of recovery; incapable of being recovered: as, an irrecoverable debt.
without hope
Discouraging
Impossible to do or carry out:
Having or certain to have an evil fate or unlucky end
Of the nature of a disaster; causing great harm, damage, etc.; calamitous
Characterized by foreboding
Discouraging
past recall
Discouraging
Relating to or characteristic of dramatic tragedy or tragedies:
Very destructive; most unfortunate; disastrous
Not availing; futile; ineffectual
Unable to find one's way; unavailable, with location unknown.
hope (related)
Offering no hope or expectation of improvement
favorable (antonym)
Pleasing or desirable
heartening (antonym)
cheering (antonym)
Discouraging
impossible (related)
(Colloquial, of a person) Very difficult to deal with.
Impossible to remedy, correct, or repair; incurable or irreparable:
Marked by pessimism and little hopefulness.
beyond recall
Discouraging
That cannot be retrieved, recovered, restored, or recalled
with no hope
Discouraging
hopeful (antonym)
Inspiring or giving hope
optimistic (antonym)
Expecting the best in all possible ways.
miserable (related)
pathetic (related)
dreadful (related)
pitiful (related)
impotent (related)
joyless (related)
dispirit (related)
pitiable (related)
feeble (related)
Pulverized, rendered into small, disconnected fragments.
Directed downward:
Affected with, or expressing, gloom; melancholy; dejected.
Weak; lacking forcefulness
unpromisin
auspicious (antonym)
The definition of auspicious is a situation that is positive or indicative of good things to come or is someone who is lucky.
bright (antonym)
The definition of bright is shining and full of light, mentally quick or witty.
promising (antonym)
Showing promise of success, excellence, etc.
propitious (antonym)
The definition of propitious is someone that is helpful or generous.
rosy (antonym)
Bright, promising, cheerful, etc.
encouraging (antonym)
Auspicious, or bringing good luck
expectant (antonym)
Having or marked by expectation:
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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