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Synonyms for hopeless
ˈhoʊp lɪshope·less
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Wiktionary
hopelessadjective
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desperateAntonyms:
hopefulhopelessadjective
Destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing.
I am a woman, friendless, hopeless. -Shakespeare.
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desperateAntonyms:
hopefulhopelessadjective
Giving no ground of hope; promising nothing desirable; desperate.
A hopeless cause.
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desperateAntonyms:
hopeful
Princeton's WordNet
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, goodhopelessadjective
of a person unable to do something skillfully
"I'm hopeless at mathematics"
Antonyms:
anticipative, expectant, anticipant, hopeful, skilled, good, possiblehopelessadjective
certain to fail
"the situation is hopeless"
Antonyms:
expectant, good, anticipant, possible, hopeful, anticipative, skilledhopelessadjective
(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
Dictionary of English Synonymes
hopelessadjective
Synonyms:
despairing, desperate, forlornhopelessadjective
Synonyms:
remediless, irremediable, incurable, past curehopelessadjective
Synonyms:
impossible, impracticable
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
hopelessadjective
Synonyms:
despairing, disconsolate, desperate, unpromising
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "hopeless":
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Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#6496 | desperate | |
#16120 | dire | |
#22400 | hopeless | |
#75438 | despairing | |
#105384 | incorrigible | |
#229588 | irremediable |
How to use hopeless in a sentence?
We're not quite so bumbling and hopeless as you like to think.
God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it is hopeless.
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.
So many tangles in life are ultimately hopeless that we have no appropriate sword other than laughter.
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.
Translations for hopeless
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- hopeloosAfrikaans
- desesperatCatalan, Valencian
- beznadějnýCzech
- håbløsDanish
- hoffnungslosGerman
- desesperadoSpanish
- ناامیدPersian
- toivotonFinnish
- désespéréFrench
- reménytelenHungarian
- անհույսArmenian
- 絶望, 絶望的Japanese
- უიმედოGeorgian
- 희망이없는Korean
- نا ئومێدKurdish
- desperatusLatin
- beviltiška, beviltiškasLithuanian
- bezcerīga, bezcerīgsLatvian
- безнадеженMacedonian
- putus asaMalay
- kansloos, uitzichtloos, hopeloosDutch
- håplaus, vonlausNorwegian Nynorsk
- håpløs, vonlaus, vonløs, håplausNorwegian
- desesperado, desesperançadoPortuguese
- безнадёжныйRussian
- hopplösSwedish
- ümitsiz, nevmit, umutsuzTurkish
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