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hopeless

adjective

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Senses

Sense 1 adjective

without hope because there seems to be no possibility of comfort or success

in an agony of hopeless grief

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Sense 2 adjective

of a person unable to do something skillfully

I'm hopeless at mathematics

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Sense 3 adjective

certain to fail

the situation is hopeless

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Sense 4 adjective

(informal to emphasize how bad it is) beyond hope of management or reform

she handed me a hopeless jumble of papers

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SenseRelationGroupWord
1 also see Related & opposite discouraging
1 also see Related & opposite pessimistic
1 also see Related & opposite impossible
1 antonym Related & opposite hopeful
1 derivation Related & opposite hopelessness
1 similar to Related & opposite unhopeful
1 similar to Related & opposite bleak
1 similar to Related & opposite desperate
1 similar to Related & opposite despondent
1 similar to Related & opposite forlorn
1 similar to Related & opposite futureless
1 similar to Related & opposite helpless
1 similar to Related & opposite insoluble
2 derivation Related & opposite hopelessness
2 similar to Related & opposite unskilled
3 similar to Related & opposite impossible
4 domain usage Related & opposite colloquialism
4 similar to Related & opposite bad