hopeless
hopeless is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 2 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.Giving no ground of hope; promising nothing desirable; desperate; as, a hopeless cause. The hopelessword of "never to return" Breathe I against thee, upon pain of life. Shak.
- 2.Unhoped for; despaired of. [Obs.] Marston. -- Hope"less*ly, adv. -- Hope"less*ness, n.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- adieu
- allow
- bereavement
- bereft
- cut
- damage
- deperdition
- deprivation
- dispossession
- exempt
- experience
- farewell
- forfeit
- forfeiture
- get
- having
- incur
- irretrievable
- lapse
- let
- long
- lose
- losing
- loss
- lost
- meet
- minus
- mislay
- miss
- not
- off
- out
- perdition
- privation
- quit
- rid
- riddance
- shorn
- slip
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
Related questions
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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