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can't win

ADJECTIVE

despairing

Synonyms

STRONGEST

grief-stricken melancholic melancholy pessimistic suicidal

STRONG

blue dejected depressed oppressed sunk

WEAK

anxious at end of one's rope brokenhearted cynical desperate disconsolate downcast forlorn frantic hopeless in pain in the dumps in the pits in the soup inconsolable miserable no-win not a prayer sad shot down strabilious weighed down wretched

Antonyms

STRONG

cheerful encouraged happy joyous

WEAK

confident expectant hopeful

ADJECTIVE

desperate

Synonyms

STRONGEST

despondent forlorn futile sad vain

STRONG

downcast goner

WEAK

at end of one's rope back to the wall dead duck despairing desponding gone hard up in the soup in the toilet inconsolable irrecoverable irremediable irretrievable no chance no-win running out of time sunk up against it up the creek useless wretched

Antonyms

STRONGEST

cheerful happy hopeful joyful

WEAK

calm confident content contented satisfactory satisfied secure unworried

Example Sentences

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From MarketWatch • May 27, 2026

"There's no reason why Hearts can't win the title," he said on Sportscene.

From BBC • May 15, 2026

It’s for this reason that Latifi has concluded that on the internet, women just can’t win.

From Salon • May 10, 2026

“People are just, like, ‘You can’t win against them,’” Cook said.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 13, 2026

“How he gonna do that when I ain’t even playing unless he know he can’t win without me?”

From "Slam!" by Walter Dean Myers