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hopeless
[ hohp-lis ]
adjective
- providing no hope; beyond optimism or hope; desperate:
a hopeless cancer diagnosis.
Synonyms: incurable, remediless, irremediable
- without hope; despairing:
hopeless grief.
Synonyms: dejected, disconsolate, forlorn
- impossible to accomplish, solve, resolve, etc.:
Balancing my budget is hopeless.
- not able to perform, work, learn, or act as desired; inadequate for the purpose:
As a poker player, you're hopeless.
hopeless
/ ˈhəʊplɪs /
adjective
- having or offering no hope
- impossible to analyse or solve
- unable to learn, function, etc
- informal.without skill or ability
Derived Forms
- ˈhopelessness, noun
- ˈhopelessly, adverb
Other Words From
- hope·less·ly adverb
- hope·less·ness noun
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
So many people feel hopeless to do anything about it.
Feeling hopeless and overwhelmed can spur you to take action and make some small differences between now and the next election, and fighting a second Trump term with your finances is an option to consider.
He embodies that seething, alienated rage of people who feel like they’ve been left to rot in the dark corners of the country, unseen, unheard and hopeless for far too long.
"A lot of girls are finding themselves in a very hopeless, depressing situation where they do not see any way out," the 27-year-old Nobel Prize Winner says.
If I can be ‘hopeful,’ then I can also be ‘hopeless,’ and I do not like feeling hopeless.”
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