Thesaurus / hopeless
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When you’re under stress and feel hopeless, it’s more likely that these conflicts spiral into violence.
WHAT CAN MAYORS DO WHEN THE POLICE STOP DOING THEIR JOBS?BY ALEC MACGILLISSEPTEMBER 3, 2020PROPUBLICAHelpless, hopeless, despondent, all sorts of sad emotions in the English language that you can think of.
PODCAST: HOW A 135-YEAR-OLD LAW LETS INDIA SHUTDOWN THE INTERNETANTHONY GREENSEPTEMBER 2, 2020MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEWWhile it may feel hopeless to see all of this unfold, just remember that you can still take responsibility in securing the health of yourself and the people you love.
THE CDC’S NEW COVID-19 TESTING GUIDELINES COULD MAKE THE PANDEMIC WORSESARA KILEY WATSONAUGUST 27, 2020POPULAR-SCIENCENothing formally came of it, but one of the men, the pro-democracy economist Fouad Abdelmoumni, says his friends high up at the agency told him the letter was hopeless and urged him to drop the matter.
INSIDE NSO, ISRAEL’S BILLION-DOLLAR SPYWARE GIANTTATE RYAN-MOSLEYAUGUST 19, 2020MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEWDespite the result of this vote, the situation is not entirely hopeless in “Europe’s last dictatorship”.
BELARUS ELECTION: CONTESTED RESULT SPARKS MASSIVE UNREST AS EUROPE’S ‘LAST DICTATOR’ CLAIMS VICTORYLGBTQ-EDITORAUGUST 12, 2020NO STRAIGHT NEWSThe conflict of these certainties left hopeless disorder in every corner of his being.
THE WAVEALGERNON BLACKWOODAs the hopeless wish passed through his soul, the iron entered with it, but did not pass away.
THE PASTOR'S FIRE-SIDE VOL. 3 OF 4JANE PORTERHis attitude was one of hopeless resignation as he looked toward a distant bird winging its flight away from him.
THE AWAKENING AND SELECTED SHORT STORIESKATE CHOPINThe Austrian parlementaire pointed out that it was hopeless to continue the struggle as he had neither provisions nor ammunition.
NAPOLEON'S MARSHALSR. P. DUNN-PATTISONIt was not a condition of life which fitted her, and she could see in it but an appalling and hopeless ennui.
THE AWAKENING AND SELECTED SHORT STORIESKATE CHOPINWORDS RELATED TO HOPELESS
- absurd
- beyond
- contrary to reason
- cureless
- futile
- hardly possible
- hopeless
- hundred-to-one
- impassable
- impervious
- impracticable
- impractical
- inaccessible
- inconceivable
- inexecutable
- infeasible
- insurmountable
- irrealizable
- irreparable
- no-go
- no-win
- not a prayer
- out of the question
- preposterous
- too much
- unachievable
- unattainable
- uncorrectable
- unfeasible
- unimaginable
- unobtainable
- unreasonable
- unrecoverable
- unthinkable
- unworkable
- useless
- visionary
- way-out
- abortive
- bootless
- counterproductive
- disadvantageous
- dysfunctional
- expendable
- feckless
- fruitless
- futile
- good-for-nothing
- hopeless
- idle
- impracticable
- impractical
- incompetent
- ineffective
- ineffectual
- inept
- inoperative
- inutile
- meaningless
- no good
- nonfunctional
- of no use
- pointless
- profitless
- purposeless
- scrap
- stupid
- unavailable
- unavailing
- unfunctional
- unproductive
- unprofitable
- unpurposed
- unusuable
- unworkable
- vain
- valueless
- waste
- weak
- worthless
- absurd
- beyond
- contrary to reason
- cureless
- futile
- hardly possible
- hopeless
- hundred-to-one
- impassable
- impervious
- impracticable
- impractical
- inaccessible
- inconceivable
- inexecutable
- infeasible
- insurmountable
- irrealizable
- irreparable
- no-go
- no-win
- not a prayer
- out of the question
- preposterous
- too much
- unachievable
- unattainable
- uncorrectable
- unfeasible
- unimaginable
- unobtainable
- unrealizable
- unreasonable
- unrecoverable
- unthinkable
- useless
- visionary
- way-out
- abortive
- bootless
- counterproductive
- disadvantageous
- dysfunctional
- expendable
- feckless
- fruitless
- futile
- good-for-nothing
- hopeless
- idle
- impracticable
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- incompetent
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- ineffectual
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- inoperative
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- meaningless
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- profitless
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- scrap
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- unpurposed
- unusuable
- unworkable
- vain
- valueless
- waste
- weak
- worthless
- afflicted
- agonized
- anguished
- appalling
- awful
- bad
- calamitous
- catastrophic
- cruel
- deplorable
- disappointing
- disastrous
- disconsolate
- disgraceful
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- doleful
- dreadful
- feeble
- gloomy
- grieving
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- heartsick
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- inadequate
- lamentable
- lousy
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- paltry
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- base
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- depressed
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- down
- down-and-out
- downcast
- faulty
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- hapless
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- in the pits
- inferior
- low
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- pitiable
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- poor
- shabby
- shameful
- sordid
- sorrowful
- sorry
- spiritless
- tragic
- unfortunate
- unhappy
- vile
- weak
- woebegone
- woeful
- worthless
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