hopeless
48
2.5
- adjective
- /ˈhoʊpləs/
:
desesperado
- After losing her job and facing many challenges, she felt utterly hopeless about her future.
- feel hopeless
- sad and hopeless
- depressed and hopeless
All this crime and just everything felt so weird and hopeless, Martin said.
- All this crime and just everything felt so weird and hopeless, Martin said.
- So if you are hopeless and negative, that's pretty bad.
- Before coming to Doctor Phil for help, my daughter Jamie was hopeless and lost.
- And even though you may feel stuck, even though you may feel hopeless, you're not broken.
- But for all of our listeners out there that feel helpless and hopeless, stop.
- But when I was in that experience, I just felt sort of hopeless and helpless.
- Things like crying a lot, feeling life is hopeless, that kind of thing.
- It feels pretty hopeless and talking feels unproductive.
- It's reaching for that, even though it's hopeless to understand.
- They feel helpless, hopeless, powerless, experience regret and shame.
- All of this toxicity, it leaves us sad, hopeless, bereft, wondering what happens.
- And she was, I guess I would say, hopeless.
- And therefore you think, OK, why do you feel hopeless?
- It was, I left thinking I, I just was hopeless.
Examples
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But then, sitting alone in the dark, he started feeling sad and hopeless again.
Fiction book (1995) -
And even though you may feel stuck, even though you may feel hopeless, you're not broken.
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All this crime and just everything felt so weird and hopeless, Martin said.
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Things like crying a lot, feeling life is hopeless, that kind of thing.
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Do you feel stuck, hopeless, frustrated, or even just lost?
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Help the hopeless realize they can overcome just like so many have done before them.
Academic text (2010) -
Before coming to Doctor Phil for help, my daughter Jamie was hopeless and lost.
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Do you feel sad, hopeless, overwhelmed, empty?
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Suddenly everything seems so unfair and hopeless; I can no longer control the tears I have been holding back.
Fiction book (1999) -
All of this toxicity, it leaves us sad, hopeless, bereft, wondering what happens.
Synonyms
704
3.3
Wanting something very much and feeling hopeless
441
3.5
Feeling very sad and without hope
68
4.7
Showing little hope or encouragement
44
3.8
A gloomy, boring time that makes you feel sad or tired
28
4.9
A job or situation that gives no chance to move up and get better
22
6.8
Being sad and hopeless and not likely to succeed
18
7.7
Feeling very sad and without hope about the future
15
6.5
Unable to continue because progress has stopped
7
3.4
Feeling less confident and hopeful because of problems
7
5.3
With no hope of being saved or helped
7
7.7
Showing or feeling complete defeat and no hope
5
4.2
Feeling less hopeful and confident after a disappointment
5
5.4
Feeling sad and without hope
4
4.6
Feeling very hopeless and sad
3
4.7
Feeling sad and without much hope
1
8.4
A situation that gives no chance to get a better life or succeed
1
4.1
Feeling sad and without much hope
Not expecting success or any improvement
Being without hope of getting better or succeeding
Antonyms
How Hopeful
189
1.8
7
3.4
3
4.7
48
2.5
4
4.6
10
7.2
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Hopeless comes from hope and the ending -less meaning 'without', so it describes a feeling or look that shows no hope and no possibility of improvement or comfort.