hopeless

Speech parts

1. hopeless - Adjective

2. hopeless - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing.

Giving no ground of hope; promising nothing desirable; desperate; as, a hopeless cause.

Unhoped for; despaired of.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

desperate forlorn duff down lost rotten starless goner sisyphean negative poor dark impossible bad terminal
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Antonyms

hopeful merry jolly golden blithe possible
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Phrases with the word

hopeless situation hopeless matter feel hopeless more hopeless not hopeless hopeless death

Examples

The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor. Albert Camus

God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it is hopeless. Chester W. Nimitz

A careful inspection showed them that, even if they succeeded in righting it by themselves, the cart would travel no longer. The axles were in a hopeless state, and the missing wheel was shattered into pieces. Kenneth Grahame

The miserable got together with the hopeless. Egyptian Proverb

A home without guests, a village without shepherds, both are hopeless indeed. Kurdish Proverb

He who is hopeless is capable of everything. French Proverb

Close letter words and terms

hopein hopeite hopeium hopeless death hopeless gossip hopeless matter