hopeless
adjective
Origin of hopeless
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forlorn, sad, tragic, useless, desperate, impossible, helpless, pointless, bad, cynical, dejected, demoralized, despairing, despondent, disconsolate, discouraging, downhearted, fatal, gone, ill-fatedExamples from the Web for hopeless
Contemporary Examples of hopeless
Society itself must be changed, right out from under our hopeless cases.
Anyone 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.
This year, the president is asking Congress for $500 million to train and equip the very rebels Obama thinks are hopeless.
Obama Stifled Hillary’s Syria Plans and Ignored Her Iraq Warnings for YearsJosh Rogin
August 14, 2014
Mumford Sons, “Hopeless Wanderer” That one time Jason Bateman, Ed Helms, Will Forte, and Jason Sudeikis had a jam session.
Historical Examples of hopeless
He knew that his case was hopeless, and he would not thaw even to the priest.
The Armourer's PrenticesCharlotte M. Yonge
In a land of great wealth, families must not live in hopeless poverty.
But four against one—and such a four as these—was hopeless odds.
Way of the LawlessMax Brand
Still remained that hopeless question: What should he do with himself?
Ester Ried Yet SpeakingIsabella Alden
It is the sensible schemes, unfortunately, that are hopeless in England.
A Treatise on Parents and ChildrenGeorge Bernard Shaw