What is "hopeless" in English? Definition and Explanations

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What does hopeless mean in English? Meaning of hopeless definition and abbreviation with examples.

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What is "hopeless" in English? Definition and Explanations

Meaning of "hopeless": without hope because there seems to be no possibility of comfort or success

Adjective

  • Meaning: without hope because there seems to be no possibility of comfort or success
  • Example: in an agony of hopeless grief with a hopeless sigh he sat down
  • Synonyms: hopeless
  • Antonyms: hopeful
  • Similar: abject black bleak despairing desperate despondent dim forlorn futureless heartsick helpless insoluble lost unhopeful
  • Also see: discouraging impossible pessimistic
  • Meaning of "hopeless": of a person unable to do something skillfully

    Adjective

  • Meaning: of a person unable to do something skillfully
  • Example: I'm hopeless at mathematics
  • Synonyms: hopeless
  • Similar: unskilled
  • Meaning of "hopeless": certain to fail

    Adjective

  • Meaning: certain to fail
  • Example: the situation is hopeless
  • Synonyms: hopeless
  • Similar: impossible
  • Meaning of "hopeless": (informal to emphasize how bad it is) beyond hope of management or reform

    Adjective

  • Meaning: (informal to emphasize how bad it is) beyond hope of management or reform
  • Example: she handed me a hopeless jumble of papers he is a hopeless romantic
  • Synonyms: hopeless
  • Similar: bad
  • Adjective: Without hope; despairing; not expecting anything positive. William Shakespeare I am a woman, friendless, hopeless. 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 15, The Mirror and the Lamp: Edward Churchill still attended to his work in a hopeless mechanical manner like a sleep-walker who walks safely on a well-known round. But his Roman collar galled him, his cossack stifled him, his biretta was as uncomfortable as a merry-andrew's cap and bells.William Shakespeare I am a woman, friendless, hopeless.1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 15, The Mirror and the Lamp: Edward Churchill still attended to his work in a hopeless mechanical manner like a sleep-walker who walks safely on a well-known round. But his Roman collar galled him, his cossack stifled him, his biretta was as uncomfortable as a merry-andrew's cap and bells.Giving no ground of hope; promising nothing desirable; desperate. a hopeless causeWithout talent, not skilled He's a hopeless writer, but can draw very well.
  • Synonyms:

    forlorn, sad, tragic, useless, desperate, impossible, helpless, pointless, bad, cynical, dejected, demoralized, despairing, despondent, disconsolate, discouraging, downhearted, fatal, gone, ill-fated, impracticable, incurable, irreparable, irrevocable, lost, menacing, sinister, threatening, unavailing, unfortunate, vain, woebegone, irreversible, beyond recall, goner, in despair, irredeemable, no-win, past hope, shot down, sunk, unachievable, unmitigable, up the creek, worsening,

    Antonyms:

    cheerful, joyful, auspicious, encouraging, promising, happy, hopeful, good, bright, expectant, optimistic, propitious, rosy,

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    hopeless in English: hopeless
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