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hope·less
hopeless
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- pronunciation:
- hop
lihs
- features:
- Word Combinations (adjective), Word Explorer, Word Parts
part of speech: |
adjective |
definition 1: |
giving no grounds to be hopeful that a desired thing will happen; beyond hope.
The doctors believed that his condition was hopeless, so his recovery was a surprise and a relief.Desperately outnumbered, it was a hopeless situation for the allied forces.This is hopeless; we have to figure out another way.- synonyms:
- irremediable
- antonyms:
- hopeful
- similar words:
- critical, deadly, desperate, fatal, grave, incurable, intractable, irredeemable, remediless, serious, terminal
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definition 2: |
without hope; despairing.
The hopeless victims of the hurricane could do nothing but wait.He felt hopeless for months after his wife's death.- synonyms:
- despairing, disconsolate
- antonyms:
- hopeful, sanguine
- similar words:
- broken-hearted, dejected, depressed, desolate, desperate, despondent, forlorn, grief-stricken, inconsolable, melancholy, miserable, suicidal, wretched
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definition 3: |
incapable of changing or improving.
He was hopeless as a waiter, and he got fired after two weeks.That man is a hopeless bigot.- synonyms:
- futile, inadequate, incapable, incompetent, incurable, intractable, lousy, poor, unavailing, useless, vain
- similar words:
- fruitless, idle, impossible, ineffective, pointless, unattainable, unsuccessful
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related words: |
bleak, dark, dreary, feeble, lost, sorry |
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derivations: |
hopelessly (adv.), hopelessness (n.) |
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