hopeless

Meaning

  1. Without hope; despairing; not expecting anything positive.
  2. Giving no ground of hope; promising nothing desirable; desperate.
  3. Without talent, not skilled.
  4. Incurable.

Synonyms

desperate
B1
despairing
47k
unpromising
forlorn
28k
useless
B1
despondent
39k
incorrigible
24k
difficult
A2
remediless
hard
A1
tough
A2
helpless
C1
discouraging
30k
disheartening
unhappy
B2
☹️
no good
🙅
dejected
35k
unfavorable
bleak
C2
incurable
C2
irredeemable
disconsolate
deadend
abject
29k
good for nothing
lonely
B1
lost
A1
gloomy
C2

past hope

unhopeful
depressed
B2
inauspicious
34k
inconsolable
40k
irremediable
irreparable
28k
living
A1
luckless
melancholy
C2
miserable
B2
no-go
27k
pessimistic
22k
sad
A2
☹️
unconsoled
uneasy
C2
unhealed
unlucky
C1
unmanageable
unreformable
unregenerate
vain
C1
Translations

désespéré
hoffnungslos
desesperado
disperato
aussichtslos

sans espoir

desesparado

desesperat

يائس

hopeloos
desesperado
irrimediabilmente

χωρίς ελπίδα

ausweglos
Frequency

B2
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈhəʊplɪs/
Etymology

Cognate with Swedish
hopplös
In summary

From hope + -less, compare Swedish hopplös.

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