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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 |
adverb + (adj.)hopeless
apparently, but, completely, from, increasingly, pretty, seemingly, totally, utterly, virtually
(adj.)hopeless
+ noun
alcoholic,
attempt,
battle,
case,
cause,
chaos,
condition,
confusion,
corruption,
crusade,
crush,
cry,
cynicism,
deadlock,
despair,
diamond,
endeavor,
enterprise,
fantasy,
frustration,
gesture,
grief,
laugh,
longing,
mess,
misery,
muddle,
optimism,
poverty,
proposition,
prospect,
quest,
romantic,
shrug,
struggle,
tangle,
task,
tragedy,
venture
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| derivations: |
hopelessly (adv.), hopelessness (n.) |
The word hopeless
contains the following part:
-less
Middle English
adjective-forming suffix
that means without
  More about this word part:
The suffix -less
attaches primarily to monosyllabic English nouns. However, -less
is a fully productive suffix, meaning it can be added to any noun to form legitimate new words.
Example words:
aimless, airless, baseless, blameless, bloodless, boneless, bodiless, bottomless, boundless, brainless, breathless, careless, cheerless, colorless, cordless, countless, dauntless, doubtless, endless, fatherless, fearless, feckless, flawless, formless, graceless, groundless, heartless, helpless, homeless, hopeless, jobless, joyless, listless, matchless, merciless, mindless, motionless, nameless, painless, peerless, penniless, pitiless, pointless, powerless, priceless, regardless, relentless, restless, selfless, sightless, soundless1, spotless, stainless, strapless, sunless, tasteless, thoughtless, tireless, useless, wireless, weightless, worthless
- synonyms:
- a-1, an-1
- antonyms:
- -ful1
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