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hopeless
adjective as in futile, pessimistic
Weak matches
- bad
- beyond recall
- cynical
- dejected
- demoralized
- despairing
- despondent
- disconsolate
- discouraging
- downhearted
- fatal
- gone
- goner
- ill-fated
- impracticable
- in despair
- incurable
- irredeemable
- irreparable
- irreversible
- irrevocable
- lost
- menacing
- no-win
- past hope
- shot down
- sinister
- sunk
- threatening
- unachievable
- unavailing
- unfortunate
- unmitigable
- up the creek
- vain
- woebegone
- worsening
Example Sentences
John Entsminger, Nevada’s representative and general manager of the Southern Nevada Water Authority, said despite the tensions, the situation is not hopeless.
As Queenie, navigating empty relationships and professional disappointments on a journey from self-sabotage to self-worth, Brown makes a whole person from a variety of attitudes — hopeful, hopeless, hungover, exuberant, fretful, thoughtful.
A program that defines itself by championships risks becoming irrelevant when there’s an absence of hope, and USC is hopeless at the moment.
If you’re feeling hopeless, take solace knowing that young people make up nearly one-fifth of the electorate and are a critical section of our democracy.
So many people feel hopeless to do anything about it.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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