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English adjective: hopeless | |||
| 1. | hopeless without hope because there seems to be no possibility of comfort or success | ||
| Samples | In an agony of hopeless grief. With a hopeless sigh he sat down. | ||
| Similar | abject, black, bleak, despairing, desperate, despondent, dim, forlorn, futureless, heartsick, helpless, insoluble, lost, unhopeful | ||
| See also | discouraging, impossible, pessimistic | ||
| Antonyms | hopeful | ||
| 2. | hopeless of a person unable to do something skillfully | ||
| Samples | I'm hopeless at mathematics. | ||
| Similar | unskilled | ||
| Antonyms | skilled | ||
| 3. | hopeless certain to fail | ||
| Samples | The situation is hopeless. | ||
| Similar | impossible | ||
| Antonyms | possible | ||
| 4. | hopeless (informal to emphasize how bad it is) beyond hope of management or reform | ||
| Samples | She handed me a hopeless jumble of papers. He is a hopeless romantic. | ||
| Similar | bad | ||
| Domain usage | colloquialism | ||
| Antonyms | good | ||
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