hopeless
Someone who's hopeless believes that nothing good can happen — a happy ending seems impossible. If you realize there's no way you'll pass your biology class, it's a hopeless situation.
When you're struggling to learn a new language or tackling a difficult task and feeling utterly discouraged, you can say that you're hopeless. In other words, you have no hope that things will work out the way you wish they would. A plan that's doomed to failure is also hopeless, because there's no chance that it'll be successful: "His scheme to save enough money to backpack through Europe is hopeless, because he still hasn't found a job."
Definitions of hopeless
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without hope because there seems to be no possibility of comfort or success“in an agony of hopeless grief”“with a hopeless sigh he sat down”
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Synonyms:
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discouraging
depriving of confidence or hope or enthusiasm and hence often deterring action
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abject, unhopeful
showing utter resignation or hopelessness
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bleak, dim
offering little or no hope
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despairing, desperate
arising from or marked by despair or loss of hope
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despondent, heartsick
without or almost without hope
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forlorn
marked by or showing hopelessness
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futureless
having no prospect or hope of a future
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helpless, lost
unable to function; without help
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insoluble
without hope of solution
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pessimistic
expecting the worst possible outcome
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impossible
not capable of occurring or being accomplished or dealt with
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Antonyms:
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hopeful
having or manifesting hope
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encouraging
giving courage or confidence or hope
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anticipant, anticipative, expectant
marked by eager anticipation
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optimistic
expecting the best in this best of all possible worlds
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discouraging
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certain to fail“the situation is hopeless”
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impossible
not capable of occurring or being accomplished or dealt with
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impossible
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of a person unable to do something skillfully“I'm hopeless at mathematics”
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unskilled
not having or showing or requiring special skill or proficiency
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unskilled
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(informal to emphasize how bad it is) beyond hope of management or reform“she handed me a hopeless jumble of papers”“he is a hopeless romantic”
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bad
having undesirable or negative qualities
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bad
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