Definition of hopeless Hopeless
/howˈplʌs/ - [howplus] - hope•less
We found 10 definitions of hopeless from 4 different sources.
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What does hopeless mean?
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| hopeless - 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" | ||
| hopeful having or manifesting hope; "a line of people hopeful of obtaining tickets"; "found a hopeful way of attacking the problem" | ||
| discouraging depriving of confidence or hope or enthusiasm and hence often deterring action; "where never is heard a discouraging word" | ||
| impossible not capable of occurring or being accomplished or dealt with; "an impossible dream"; "an impossible situation" | ||
| pessimistic expecting the worst possible outcome | ||
| unhopeful, abject showing humiliation or submissiveness; "an abject apology" | ||
| bleak, dim, black unpleasantly cold and damp; "bleak winds of the North Atlantic" | ||
| despairing, desperate arising from or marked by despair or loss of hope; "a despairing view of the world situation"; "the last despairing plea of the condemned criminal"; "a desperate cry for help"; "helpless and desperate--as if at the end of his tether"; "her desperate screams" | ||
| despondent, heartsick without or almost without hope; "despondent about his failure"; "too heartsick to fight back" | ||
| forlorn marked by or showing hopelessness; "the last forlorn attempt"; "a forlorn cause" | ||
| futureless having no prospect or hope of a future | ||
| helpless, lost unable to manage independently; "as helpless as a baby" | ||
| hopeless - (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" | ||
| bad feeling physical discomfort or pain (`tough' is occasionally used colloquially for `bad'); "my throat feels bad"; "she felt bad all over"; "he was feeling tough after a restless night" | ||
| hopeless - of a person unable to do something skillfully; "I'm hopeless at mathematics" | ||
| unskilled not having or showing or requiring special skill or proficiency; "unskilled in the art of rhetoric"; "an enthusiastic but unskillful mountain climber"; "unskilled labor"; "workers in unskilled occupations are finding fewer and fewer job opportunities"; "unskilled workmanship" | ||
| hopeless - certain to fail; "the situation is hopeless" | ||
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Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- hopeless (a.)
Destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing. - hopeless (a.)
Giving no ground of hope; promising nothing desirable; desperate; as, a hopeless cause. - hopeless (a.)
Unhoped for; despaired of.
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hopeless
Indicating despair.
