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Synonyms for hopeless
ˈhoʊp lɪshope·less

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Wiktionary0.0 / 0 votes

  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

Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  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

Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. hopelessadjective

    Synonyms:
    despairing, desperate, forlorn

  2. hopelessadjective

    Synonyms:
    remediless, irremediable, incurable, past cure

  3. hopelessadjective

    Synonyms:
    impossible, impracticable

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. hopelessadjective

    Synonyms:
    despairing, disconsolate, desperate, unpromising

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "hopeless":

    desperate, incorrigible, dire, irremediable, despairing

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#6496desperate
#16120dire
#22400hopeless
#75438despairing
#105384incorrigible
#229588irremediable

How to use hopeless in a sentence?

  1. Cynthia Liu:

    This fact, that we're being held for the alleged acts of someone we barely know, makes us feel incredibly hopeless.

  2. Paul Rosenblatt:

    There's a learning curve to dealing with it, paul Rosenblatt can feel like it's hopeless today or really hard today. And then tomorrow or an hour from now, Paul Rosenblatt could be learning things or getting into a different groove where things work out.

  3. Chancellor Angela Merkel:

    I don't think that things are hopeless.

  4. Amy Oakes:

    She's playing on the basketball team now, she's involved in theatre -- things that she wasn't able to do because her behaviors prohibited her from doing them, i really felt very hopeless, before we found Brain Balance, so the fact that I just have hopes for her now is a beautiful thing, and I think she can do anything she wants to do.

  5. Kim Seok-wu:

    I think I will feel hopeless if all companies go AI for hiring, the AI interview is too new, so job applicants don't know what to prepare for and any preparations seem meaningless since the AI will read our faces if we make something up.


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