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bleak¹	hopeless; without cheer. [1/2 definitions]
dash	to make hopeless; ruin. [1/8 definitions]
desolate	feeling friendless or hopeless. [2/6 definitions]
desperate	almost hopeless; very serious. [1/3 definitions]
doomed	destined to fail; hopeless. [1/3 definitions]
forlorn	nearly hopeless. [1/3 definitions]
gone	hopeless; irrecoverable; lost. [1/8 definitions]
incurable	not capable of being reformed; hopeless. [1/2 definitions]
irredeemable	beyond remedy or redemption; hopeless or lost. [1/3 definitions]
suffix	a part of a word with its own meaning that is added to the end of another word to change the meaning. The suffix "ed" in "wanted" gives the meaning of past time. The suffix "less" in "hopeless" gives the meaning "without."

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