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. Nigel Kneale:

   We're not quite so bumbling and hopeless as you like to think.

2. Chester William Nimitz:

   God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it is hopeless.

3. Rachel Miller:

   A person with a disability can feel hopeless and isolated, and I think that can happen to parents, too. Jeff probably saw that with us, john was never expected to be an athlete.

4. Gordon William Allport:

   So many tangles in life are ultimately hopeless that we have no appropriate sword other than laughter.

5. Producer Charles Roven:

   It's hopeless as a secret. Also (characterizing something as a secret is) like daring them to get it. The point is protecting people's enjoyment of the film. the movie will be successful if both those who have been fans of the material appreciate it, have fun with this, walk out and talk about it, but also those who have never seen a Batman movie, a Superman movie, a Wonder Woman TV show, they decide to come take a look and they are also won over and moved by it.