Hopelessness Synonyms and Antonyms

Utter lack of hope
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. despair
  2. despondency
  3. desperateness
  4. desperation
  5. despond
  6. despondence
Antonyms:
  1. hopefulness

Words Related to Hopelessness

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Hopelessness Sentence Examples

  • I have often cried out loud in sheer misery at the hopelessness of life, my life.

  • Her eyes, always sad, now looked with particular hopelessness at her reflection in the glass.

  • His attitude is one not of bitterness but of calm hopelessness, with an occasional tinge of disgust or contempt.

  • When he was informed that among others awaiting him in his reception room there was a Frenchman who had brought a letter from his wife, the Countess Helene, he felt suddenly overcome by that sense of confusion and hopelessness to which he was apt to succumb.

  • Clinical depression is a serious illness characterized by feelings of intense sadness, hopelessness and despair.

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