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synonyms for hopeless
- 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
- incurable
- in despair
- 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
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How to use hopeless in a sentence
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 MacGillis | September 3, 2020 | ProPublicaHelpless, 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 internet | Anthony Green | September 2, 2020 | MIT 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 worse | Sara Kiley Watson | August 27, 2020 | Popular-Science
Nothing 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 giant | Tate Ryan-Mosley | August 19, 2020 | MIT 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 Victory | LGBTQ-Editor | August 12, 2020 | No Straight NewsSociety itself must be changed, right out from under our hopeless cases.
These formations streamed from Rwanda with the same hopeless shuffle as they did from Bosnia and now as they do from Syria.
Inside, it seemed hopeless, for every chair in sight was occupied, and a dozen men were asleep on the floor.
The Stacks: H.L. Mencken on the 1904 Baltimore Fire | H.L. Mencken | October 4, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAnyone who takes pot shots at a lovely wading bird is a hopeless defective, in my view, an evolutionary mistake.
The Economist cover in 2000 dubbed it “The hopeless Continent,” with a photo of a grinning, heavily armed soldier.
How I Got Addicted to Africa (and Wrote a Thriller About It) | Todd Moss | September 9, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe conflict of these certainties left hopeless disorder in every corner of his being.
The Wave | Algernon 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 4 | Jane 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 Stories | Kate ChopinThe Austrian parlementaire pointed out that it was hopeless to continue the struggle as he had neither provisions nor ammunition.
Napoleon's Marshals | R. 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 Stories | Kate Chopin
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