sunk
- adjective
- /sʌŋk/
:
hundido
- His hopes of a promotion were sunk when he received the news of the company's downsizing.
Aw, if I lose my awe of God, I'm sunk.
- Aw, if I lose my awe of God, I'm sunk.
- If you can't learn from those people too, you're sunk.
Examples
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Feeling sunk in despair, she realized that her dreams of becoming a singer seemed out of reach.
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After losing the championship, the team's morale was sunk, and they struggled to motivate themselves for the next season.
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For Lucidus your sorrow is not dead, sunk though he be beneath the watery floor.
Synonyms
30
7.7
Very likely to fail or die and cannot be saved
28
4.9
A job or situation that gives no chance to move up and get better
22
6.5
No longer successful or popular after being famous
15
6.5
Unable to continue because progress has stopped
7
5.3
With no hope of being saved or helped
Antonyms
Compounds
- UK
A ditch with one side formed by a low wall that divides land without blocking the view
How Hopeless
Surface Forms
Etymology
Sunk comes from the verb sink, which means 'to go down' or 'fall under water', like a ship that goes under and cannot come back up. So when something is sunk, it gives the image of 'going under' with no chance to recover, which is why the word means hopeless or doomed.