hopeless

English

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.

Etymology

hope +‎ -less

Pronunciation

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Adjective

hopeless (comparative more hopeless, superlative most hopeless)

1. Destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing.

   I am a woman, friendless, hopeless. -Shakespeare.

2. Giving no ground of hope; promising nothing desirable; desperate.

   A hopeless cause.

Usage notes

• Nouns to which "hopeless" is often applied: case, situation, romantic, love, cause, person, despair, life, undertaking, alcoholic, man, endeavor, place, pain, agony, project.

Synonyms

• desperate

Antonyms

• hopeful

Translations

destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing

• Armenian: անհույս (hy) (anhuys)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 沒有希望的 (cmn), 没有希望的 (cmn) (méiyǒu xīwàng de), 絕望的 (cmn), 绝望的 (cmn) (juéwàng de)

• Czech: beznadějný (cs) m
• Dutch: hopeloos (nl), uitzichtloos (nl), kansloos (nl)
• Finnish: toivoton (fi)
• French: désespéré (fr) m
• Georgian: უიმედო (ka) (uimedo)
• German: hoffnungslos (de) (1-3)
• Hungarian: reménytelen (hu)
• Japanese: 絶望した (ja) (ぜつぼうした, zetsubō shita), 絶望的な (ja) (ぜつぼうてきな, zetsubōteki na)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: نا ئومێد

• Latin: desperatus (la)
• Latvian: bezcerīgs (lv) m, bezcerīga (lv) f
• Lithuanian: beviltiškas (lt) m, beviltiška (lt) f
• Macedonian: безнадежен (mk) (beznádežen) m
• Malay: putus asa (ms)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: håpløs (no), håplaus (no), vonløs (no), vonlaus (no)

  Nynorsk: vonlaus (nn), håplaus (nn)

• Persian: ناامید (fa) (na-omid)
• Portuguese: desesperado (pt), desesperançado (pt) m
• Russian: безнадёжный (ru) (beznadjóžnyj)
• Spanish: desesperado (es)
• Swedish: hopplös (sv) (1-3)
• Turkish: umutsuz (tr), ümitsiz (tr), nevmit (tr)

desparate — see desparate

References

• hopeless in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• hopeless in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• hopeless at OneLook Dictionary Search