Synonyms for hopeless
ˈhoʊp lɪshope·less

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1. hopelessadjective

   Synonyms:
   desperate

   Antonyms:
   hopeful

2. hopelessadjective

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

   I am a woman, friendless, hopeless. -Shakespeare.

   Synonyms:
   desperate

   Antonyms:
   hopeful

3. hopelessadjective

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

   A hopeless cause.

   Synonyms:
   desperate

   Antonyms:
   hopeful

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1. hopelessadjective

   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"

   Antonyms:
   anticipant, anticipative, expectant, possible, hopeful, skilled, good

2. hopelessadjective

   of a person unable to do something skillfully

   "I'm hopeless at mathematics"

   Antonyms:
   anticipative, expectant, anticipant, hopeful, skilled, good, possible

3. hopelessadjective

   certain to fail

   "the situation is hopeless"

   Antonyms:
   expectant, good, anticipant, possible, hopeful, anticipative, skilled

4. hopelessadjective

   (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"

   Antonyms:
   expectant, hopeful, good, anticipant, possible, anticipative, skilled

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1. hopelessadjective

   Synonyms:
   despairing, desperate, forlorn

2. hopelessadjective

   Synonyms:
   remediless, irremediable, incurable, past cure

3. hopelessadjective

   Synonyms:
   impossible, impracticable

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1. hopelessadjective

   Synonyms:
   despairing, disconsolate, desperate, unpromising

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1. List of paraphrases for "hopeless":

   desperate, incorrigible, dire, irremediable, despairing

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How to use hopeless in a sentence?

1. Chancellor Angela Merkel:

   I don't think that things are hopeless.

2. Patty Murphy:

   ( I feel) anger, fury, rage. I feel despondent, helpless, hopeless, frustrated, but also it motivates me. It encourages me to help be a voice for people who can't be a voice and want to say these things, or can't say these things, like teachers.

3. Michael Roh:

   Every line on this register that we have has a story, a story of family separation, of pain from the Korean War, these people feel disenfranchised and they feel very hopeless.

4. Harriet Beecher Stowe:

   So long as the law considers all these human beings, with beating hearts and living affections, only as so many things belonging to the master -- so long as the failure, or misfortune, or imprudence, or death of the kindest owner, may cause them any day to exchange a life of kind protection and indulgence for one of hopeless misery and toil -- so long it is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best-regulated administration of slavery.

5. Jimmy Carters:

   Our hearts are with the victims' families and all who feel hopeless in the face of pervasive racial discrimination and outright cruelty. We all must shine a spotlight on the immorality of racial discrimination, but violence, whether spontaneous or consciously incited, is not a solution.