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hopeless
[ hohp-lis ]
adjective
- providing no hope; beyond optimism or hope; desperate:
a hopeless cancer diagnosis.
Synonyms: incurable, remediless, irremediable
- without hope; despairing:
hopeless grief.
Synonyms: dejected, disconsolate, forlorn
- impossible to accomplish, solve, resolve, etc.:
Balancing my budget is hopeless.
- not able to perform, work, learn, or act as desired; inadequate for the purpose:
As a poker player, you're hopeless.
hopeless
/ ˈhəʊplɪs /
adjective
- having or offering no hope
- impossible to analyse or solve
- unable to learn, function, etc
- informal.without skill or ability
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Derived Forms
- ˈhopelessness, noun
- ˈhopelessly, adverb
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Other Words From
- hope·less·ly adverb
- hope·less·ness noun
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Example Sentences
Society itself must be changed, right out from under our hopeless cases.
These formations streamed from Rwanda with the same hopeless shuffle as they did from Bosnia and now as they do from Syria.
Inside, it seemed hopeless, for every chair in sight was occupied, and a dozen men were asleep on the floor.
Anyone who takes pot shots at a lovely wading bird is a hopeless defective, in my view, an evolutionary mistake.
The Economist cover in 2000 dubbed it “The Hopeless Continent,” with a photo of a grinning, heavily armed soldier.
The conflict of these certainties left hopeless disorder in every corner of his being.
As the hopeless wish passed through his soul, the iron entered with it, but did not pass away.
His attitude was one of hopeless resignation as he looked toward a distant bird winging its flight away from him.
The Austrian parlementaire pointed out that it was hopeless to continue the struggle as he had neither provisions nor ammunition.
It was not a condition of life which fitted her, and she could see in it but an appalling and hopeless ennui.
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