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no-win
adjective as in despairing
Strongest matches
adjective as in desperate
Strongest matches
adjective as in hopeless
Weak matches
- 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
- past hope
- shot down
- sinister
- sunk
- threatening
- unachievable
- unavailing
- unfortunate
- unmitigable
- up the creek
- vain
- woebegone
- worsening
adjective as in impossible
Strongest matches
Strong match
adjective as in insurmountable
adjective as in irremediable
Weak matches
- bad
- beyond recall
- cureless
- cynical
- dejected
- demoralized
- despairing
- desperate
- despondent
- disconsolate
- discouraging
- downhearted
- fatal
- forlorn
- gone
- goner
- helpless
- ill-fated
- impossible
- impracticable
- in despair
- incurable
- irredeemable
- irreparable
- irreversible
- irrevocable
- lost
- menacing
- past hope
- pointless
- sad
- shot down
- sinister
- sunk
- threatening
- tragic
- unachievable
- unavailing
- unfortunate
- unmitigable
- up the creek
- useless
- vain
- woebegone
- worsening
adjective as in unattainable
Strongest matches
adjective as in unrealizable
Weak matches
- 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
- not a prayer
- out of the question
- preposterous
- too much
- unachievable
- unattainable
- uncorrectable
- unfeasible
- unimaginable
- unobtainable
- unreasonable
- unrecoverable
- unthinkable
- unworkable
- useless
- visionary
- way-out
adjective as in unworkable
Weak matches
- beyond
- contrary to reason
- cureless
- hardly possible
- hopeless
- hundred-to-one
- impervious
- impracticable
- inaccessible
- inconceivable
- inexecutable
- infeasible
- insurmountable
- irrealizable
- irreparable
- no-go
- not a prayer
- out of the question
- preposterous
- too much
- unachievable
- uncorrectable
- unfeasible
- unimaginable
- unobtainable
- unrealizable
- unrecoverable
- visionary
- way-out
adjective as in vain
Weak matches
- abortive
- barren
- bootless
- delusive
- delusory
- empty
- going nowhere
- hollow
- idle
- in vicious circle
- inefficacious
- insignificant
- misleading
- not a prayer
- nugatory
- on a treadmill
- otiose
- paltry
- pointless
- profitless
- puny
- senseless
- shuck
- slight
- sterile
- time-wasting
- trifling
- unavailing
- unimportant
- unnotable
- unproductive
- unprofitable
- valueless
- void
- worthless
Example Sentences
The end result: Renters get caught in something of a no-win situation.
"It was more than being allergic - you were going into a no-win scenario," a former No 10 official recalls.
“However, to achieve that goal, we must have both the authority and support to remove barriers that hinder progress rather than perpetuate no-win situations.”
But in a sense, Fincher was saddled with a no-win situation.
Many groups say that long term BP and others are pursuing a no-win strategy.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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