hopeless

Meaning of hopeless

adjective
  1. feeling or causing despair.
    Jess looked at him in mute hopeless appeal
  2. very bad or incompetent.
    I'm hopeless at names

Information about hopeless

  • It is an adjective.
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Hyphenation of hopeless

hope-less

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
  • hopeless is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

hopeless synonyms

Meaning showing the loss of all hope:

despairing

Meaning feeling or showing a hopeless sense that a situation is so bad as to be impossible to deal with:

desperate

Meaning sad and depressed; dispirited:

dejected

Meaning discouraged; in low spirits:

downhearted

Meaning in low spirits from loss of hope or courage:

despondent

Meaning having lost confidence or hope; disheartened:

demoralized

Meaning very unhappy and unable to be comforted:

disconsolate

Meaning (of a person) feeling despondent:

downcast

Meaning of poor quality; very bad:

wretched

Meaning sad or miserable in appearance:

woebegone

Meaning (of an aim or endeavour) unlikely to succeed or be fulfilled:

forlorn

Meaning consisting in or characterized by the absence rather than the presence of distinguishing features:

negative

Meaning tending to see the worst aspect of things or believe that the worst will happen:

pessimistic

Meaning demonstrating expectation or acceptance of failure:

defeatist

Meaning having accepted something unpleasant that one cannot do anything about:

resigned

Meaning impossible to cure or put right:

irremediable

Meaning unable to find one's way; not knowing one's whereabouts:

lost

Meaning (of an injury or loss) impossible to rectify or repair:

irreparable

Meaning not able to be undone or altered:

irreversible

Meaning (of a person or their behaviour) not able to be changed or reformed:

incorrigible

Meaning (of a person or behaviour) unable to be changed:

incurable

Meaning a hole dug in the ground to receive a coffin or dead body, typically marked by a stone or mound:

grave

Meaning causing death:

fatal

Meaning causing or able to cause death:

deadly

Meaning not able to occur, exist, or be done:

impossible

Meaning not fulfilling or not expected to achieve the intended purpose or desired outcome:

useless

Meaning incapable of producing any useful result; pointless:

futile

Meaning not able to function or be carried out successfully; impractical:

unworkable

Meaning (of a course of action) impossible in practice to do or carry out:

impracticable

Meaning having little or no sense, use, or purpose:

pointless

Meaning having or showing an excessively high opinion of one's appearance, abilities, or worth:

vain

Meaning (of a task or undertaking) ineffectual; useless:

bootless

Meaning full of danger or uncertainty; precarious:

parlous

Meaning very bad or unpleasant:

awful

Meaning extremely bad or serious:

terrible

Meaning extremely disagreeable:

dreadful

Meaning very bad; awful:

appalling

Meaning very unpleasant, serious, or shocking:

frightful

Meaning horrifyingly wicked:

atrocious

Meaning lower in rank, status, or quality:

inferior

Meaning not having or showing the necessary skills to do something successfully:

incompetent

Meaning lacking the quality or quantity required; insufficient for a purpose:

inadequate

Meaning not producing any significant or desired effect:

ineffective

Meaning arousing pity, especially through vulnerability or sadness:

pathetic

Meaning very poor or bad:

lousy

Meaning very bad:

rotten

Meaning extremely bad; appalling:

abysmal

Meaning extremely serious or urgent:

dire

Meaning a flour pudding boiled or steamed in a cloth bag:

duff

Meaning very bad; worthless or useless:

rubbish

hopeless antonyms

Meaning hopeful and confident about the future:

optimistic

Meaning capable of being cured; treatable:

remediable

Meaning (of a disease or condition) able to be cured:

curable

Meaning feeling or inspiring optimism about a future event:

hopeful

Meaning highly trained or skilled in a particular activity:

accomplished

Translation of hopeless

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