HOPELESS
\hˈə͡ʊpləs], \hˈəʊpləs], \h_ˈəʊ_p_l_ə_s]\
Definitions of HOPELESS
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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(informal to emphasize how bad it is) beyond hope of management or reform; "she handed me a hopeless jumble of papers"; "he is a hopeless romantic"
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without hope because there seems to be no possibility of comfort or success; "in an agony of hopeless grief"; "with a hopeless sigh he sat down"
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certain to fail; "the situation is hopeless"
By Princeton University
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(informal to emphasize how bad it is) beyond hope of management or reform; "she handed me a hopeless jumble of papers"; "he is a hopeless romantic"
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without hope because there seems to be no possibility of comfort or success; "in an agony of hopeless grief"; "with a hopeless sigh he sat down"
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certain to fail; "the situation is hopeless"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing.
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Giving no ground of hope; promising nothing desirable; desperate; as, a hopeless cause.
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Unhoped for; despaired of.
By Oddity Software
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Destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing.
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Giving no ground of hope; promising nothing desirable; desperate; as, a hopeless cause.
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Unhoped for; despaired of.
By Noah Webster.
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Without expectation of good; despairing; as, hopeless grief.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald