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Synonyms for hopeless
adj futile, pessimistic- desperate
- forlorn
- helpless
- impossible
- pointless
- sad
- tragic
- useless
- bad
- beyond recall
- cynical
- dejected
- demoralized
- despairing
- despondent
- disconsolate
- discouraging
- downhearted
- fatal
- gone
- goner
- 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
Antonyms for hopeless
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the
Philip Lief Group.
More words related to hopeless
bleak
adjective. depressing
bleaker
adjective. depressing
cureless
adjective. incurable
depressing
adjective. discouraging, upsetting
despairing
adjective. upset, despondent
- anxious
- at end of one's rope
- blue
- brokenhearted
- can't win
- cynical
- dejected
- depressed
- desperate
- disconsolate
- downcast
- forlorn
- frantic
- grief-stricken
- hopeless
- in pain
- in the dumps
- in the pits
- in the soup
- inconsolable
- melancholic
- melancholy
- miserable
- no-win
- not a prayer
- oppressed
- pessimistic
- sad
- shot down
- strabilious
- suicidal
- sunk
- weighed down
- wretched
despondent
adjective. depressed
disappointed
adjective. let down, saddened
- aghast
- balked
- beaten
- chapfallen
- complaining
- crestfallen
- defeated
- depressed
- despondent
- disconcerted
- discontented
- discouraged
- disenchanted
- disgruntled
- disillusioned
- dissatisfied
- distressed
- down
- down in the dumps
- downcast
- downhearted
- foiled
- frustrated
- hopeless
- objecting
- shot down
- taken down
- thwarted
- unhappy
- unsatisfied
- upset
- vanquished
- worsted
disconsolate
adjective. depressed, unhappy
- bad
- black
- blue
- cheerless
- cold
- comfortless
- crestfallen
- crushed
- dark
- dejected
- desolate
- despairing
- destroyed
- dispirited
- distressed
- doleful
- down
- downcast
- downhearted
- dreary
- forlorn
- gloomy
- grief-stricken
- heartbroken
- hopeless
- hurting
- in pain
- in the pits
- inconsolable
- low
- melancholy
- miserable
- ripped
- sad
- somber
- sorrowful
- torn-up
- woebegone
- woeful
- wretched
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the
Philip Lief Group.