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goner
adjective as in desperate
Strongest matches
Strong match
adjective as in hopeless
Weak matches
- bad
- beyond recall
- cynical
- dejected
- demoralized
- despairing
- despondent
- disconsolate
- discouraging
- downhearted
- fatal
- gone
- ill-fated
- impracticable
- in despair
- incurable
- irredeemable
- irreparable
- irreversible
- irrevocable
- lost
- menacing
- no-win
- past hope
- shot down
- sinister
- sunk
- threatening
- unachievable
- unavailing
- unfortunate
- unmitigable
- up the creek
- vain
- woebegone
- worsening
adjective as in irremediable
Weak matches
- bad
- beyond recall
- cureless
- cynical
- dejected
- demoralized
- despairing
- desperate
- despondent
- disconsolate
- discouraging
- downhearted
- fatal
- forlorn
- gone
- helpless
- ill-fated
- impossible
- impracticable
- in despair
- incurable
- irredeemable
- irreparable
- irreversible
- irrevocable
- lost
- menacing
- no-win
- past hope
- pointless
- sad
- shot down
- sinister
- sunk
- threatening
- tragic
- unachievable
- unavailing
- unfortunate
- unmitigable
- up the creek
- useless
- vain
- woebegone
- worsening
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Example Sentences
With Terri Lynn Land looking like a goner, Republicans are throwing a wild Hail Mary—using 2004 tactics to gain a Senate seat.
If, for instance, the president wins only 90 percent of the votes he drew four years ago he is almost certainly a goner.
Throw in an underdog sports story and some beautiful cinematography and I am a goner.
I thought I was a goner, for whenever anybody was after anybody I judged it was me—or maybe Jim.
His great anaconda has gathered itself in a circle around the doomed rabbit of rebellion, and if the rabbit swells he's a goner.
Took hold o' my nose dreffle bad; I'm afeard my stomach'll be a goner. '
It's a damn good thing Pearl had as good hold on me as she had, or I'd been a goner.
This is one of his important duties; for, if a sheep eats of this plant, he is a "goner."
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On this page you'll find 146 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to goner, such as: despondent, forlorn, futile, sad, vain, and downcast.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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