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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1. Alan Henning A taxi driver:

   The way I saw it, I didn't have a choice, this is what I was put here to do. I guess I am just a hopeless romantic, and I am an idealist, and I believe in hopeless causes.

2. Janice Hahn:

   He was known to walk among the people, he reached out to gang members; he reached out to the homeless; he reached out to the transients. He was the help of the helpless and the hope of the hopeless, and he knew that serving God meant serving man, especially the most vulnerable in our society.

3. Alek Skarlatos:

   It just seems like this country is really at a turning point. And if we can't win in an open seat in this kind of a year in Oregon, it just seems like we're hopeless. So I certainly hope that we can take back the House and win a lot of these competitive seats in a year like this.

4. Independent Olympic Athlete:

   It was very important for all the refugees around the world, and others who are( feeling) hopeless about the future to( say)' I was just like you before but here I am now with the help of people,'.

5. Alek Skarlatos:

   I hope that people are sick of the inflation. I think they're sick of being the poorest congressional district in the state. I think they're sick of the rising crime rate, rising groceries and everything, it just seems like this country is really at a turning point. And if we can't win in an open seat in this kind of a year in Oregon, it just seems like we're hopeless. So I certainly hope that we can take back the House and win a lot of these competitive seats in a year like this.