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adj. Having no hope; despairing. See Synonyms at despondent.

adj. Offering no hope; bleak.

adj. Incurable.

adj. Having no possibility of solution; impossible.

adj. Destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing.

adj. Giving no ground of hope; promising nothing desirable; desperate.

adj. Destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing.

adj. Giving no ground of hope; promising nothing desirable; desperate.

adj. Unhoped for; despaired of.

Without hope; having no expectation of gaining or attaining the thing desired; despairing.

Affording no ground of hope or expectation of good; despaired of: as, a hopeless case; a hopeless scamp.

Unhoped for; unexpected.

Synonyms Desponding, discouraged.

Incurable, irremediable, incorrigible, irreparable.

adj. certain to fail

adj. of a person unable to do something skillfully

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

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

"I am going to begin over with what you call the hopeless experiment -- and even now I think I have a chance ... a fighting chance of winning."

impossible    unskilled    futureless    lost    insoluble    heartsick    forlorn    despondent    despairing    abject   

hopeful   

despairing    desperate    abandoned    irredeemable    irretrievable    incurable   

desperate    helpless    utter    futile    useless    endless    lonely    pathetic    gloomy    silent