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hopeless Adjective 1. having or offering no hope 2. impossible to solve 3. Informal without skill or ability: I'm hopeless at maths hopelessly adv
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hopeless adjective 1. pessimistic, desperate, despairing, forlorn, in despair, abject, dejected, despondent, demoralized, defeatist, disconsolate, downhearted << OPPOSITE hopeful adjective 2. impossible, pointless, futile, useless, vain, forlorn, no-win, unattainable, impracticable, unachievable, not having a prayer adjective 3. (Informal) no good, inadequate, useless (informal) poor, pants (informal) pathetic, inferior, incompetent, ineffectual adjective 4. incurable, irreversible, irreparable, lost, helpless, irremediable, past remedy, remediless << OPPOSITE curable Translations How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| The case looked more and more hopeless the longer I viewed it, yet with a stubborn persistency I forged ahead toward the foothills. At last he grew so tired and hopeless that he threw down the bundle of sticks, and cried out: "I cannot bear this life any longer. tho' that long dream were of hopeless sorrow,'Twere better than the dull reality Of waking life to him whose heart shall be, And hath been ever, on the chilly earth, A chaos of deep passion from his birth ! |
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