Hopeless

Word HOPELESS
Character 8
Hyphenation hope less
Pronunciations /ˈhəʊplɪs/

Definitions and meanings of "Hopeless"

What do we mean by hopeless?

Having no hope; despairing. adjective

Characterized by despair. adjective

Having no possibility of being solved or dealt with; impossible. adjective

Having no hope or chance of changing or improving. adjective

Without hope; having no expectation of gaining or attaining the thing desired; despairing.

Affording no ground of hope or expectation of good; despaired of: as, a hopeless case; a hopeless scamp.

Unhoped for; unexpected.

Synonyms Desponding, discouraged.

Incurable, irremediable, incorrigible, irreparable.

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

Giving no ground of hope; promising nothing desirable; desperate. adjective

Unhoped for; despaired of. adjective

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

Giving no ground of hope; promising nothing desirable; desperate. adjective

Certain to fail adjective

Of a person unable to do something skillfully adjective

Without hope because there seems to be no possibility of comfort or success adjective

(informal to emphasize how bad it is) beyond hope of management or reform adjective

Without hope; despairing; not expecting anything positive.

Giving no ground of hope; promising nothing desirable; desperate.

Without talent, not skilled

(of an adverse condition) Incurable.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Hopeless

The word "hopeless" in example sentences

I am going to begin over with what you call the hopeless experiment -- and even now I think I have a chance ... a fighting chance of winning. ❋ Charles Neville Buck (1904)

Minister of War, offered to proceed to Khartoum, but when he discovered that the abandonment of the Soudan was to be proclaimed, he absolutely refused on any consideration to carry out what he termed a hopeless errand. ❋ Demetrius Charles Boulger (1890)

Violent crime and murders escalate and most people end up living in hopeless ghettos as the middle class disappears. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Why should the general public remain hopeless while medical bureaucrats fiddle and fuss over how much evidence is enough to merit promoting healthy endeavors like exercising, eating well, using our brains and taking care of our general health -- things which might also lessen the risk of Alzheimer's? ❋ Jean Carper (2010)

Heaven help us to survive the hostility that has permeated our country with true understanding of issues and compassion for those in hopeless situations. ❋ Unknown (2009)

You will consider her remark very telling of a viewpoint that you characterize as hopeless, but you will say nothing. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Perhaps we should start a B list - people who are happy to be candidates in hopeless seats where not much will be asked of them, save not having media juicy problems, being prepard to turn up for a pamplet photo and the count and not being off message should a newspaper phone you. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Feelings to love or guilt impel families to demand all-out medical care in hopeless cases. ❋ Nick Anthis (2006)

African immigrants are routinely burnt to death in hopeless conditions. ❋ Unknown (2005)

American POWs are dying in hopeless despair in enemy hands. ❋ Unknown (1972)

The class went down in hopeless, abject terror before the storm. ❋ Unknown (1911)

But as he mounted the stairs to his room he heard old Robert muttering, like a man in hopeless bewilderment, ❋ Lucy Maud (1910)

This was another grand blunder that rendered the Suakim expedition almost hopeless from the first. ❋ Unknown (1885)

She lay in hopeless misery on his breast, with her eyes again closed, almost unconscious of the support on which she leaned. ❋ Unknown (1875)

-- Ishmael sank exhausted from fatigue and thirst -- his mother laid his head under one of the bushes to smell the damp while she herself, unable to witness his distress, sat down at a little distance in hopeless sorrow. ❋ Unknown (1871)

Thus hopeless is all holy fruit before union to Christ. ❋ Unknown (1871)

They who will not now heed (Zep 1: 12) His voice by His prophets, must heed it when uttered by the avenging foe. mighty ... shall cry ... bitterly -- in hopeless despair; the might on which Jerusalem now prides itself, shall then fail utterly. ❋ Unknown (1871)

Of the doomed tongues, on the other hand, the most hopeless is French, which is losing all round; while Italian, German, and Dutch are either quite at a standstill or slightly retrograding. ❋ Grant Allen (1873)

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