Definition for Hopeless:

• Feeling no hope; admitting no hope, as a h. case. Hence hopelessly adv., hopelessness n.

Synonyms for Hopeless:

• adj.

  •bleak (adjective)
  • dismal,
  • black,
  • grim,
  • joyless,
  • funereal,
  • cheerless,
  • dreary,
  • comfortless,
  • oppressive,
  • unpromising,
  • mournful,
  • melancholy,
  • gloomy.
  •dejected (adjective)
  • disconsolate.
  •depressed (adjective)
  • despondent.
  •depressing (adjective)
  • bleak,
  • distressing.
  •despairing (adjective)
  • wretched,
  • pessimistic,
  • downcast,
  • frantic,
  • miserable,
  • depressed,
  • inconsolable,
  • blue.
  •despondent (adjective)
  • low,
  • glum,
  • down,
  • low-spirited,
  • dispirited,
  • morose,
  • sorrowful,
  • disheartened,
  • discouraged.
  •disappointed (adjective)
  • distressed,
  • unhappy.
  •disconsolate (adjective)
  • desolate,
  • woeful.
  •dismal (adjective)
  • dull,
  • lugubrious,
  • depressing,
  • dim,
  • inauspicious.
  •downbeat (adjective)
  • unhopeful,
  • defeatist,
  • negative.
  •feckless (adjective)
  • incompetent,
  • ineffective,
  • ineffectual,
  • worthless,
  • reckless,
  • futile.
  •hopeless (adjective)
  • dismal,
  • no-win,
  • menacing,
  • incurable,
  • desperate,
  • pointless,
  • morose,
  • sunk,
  • past hope,
  • goner,
  • cheerless,
  • discouraged,
  • irreparable,
  • disheartened,
  • woebegone,
  • helpless,
  • disconsolate,
  • bad,
  • impracticable,
  • unmitigable,
  • vain,
  • demoralized,
  • unfortunate,
  • irredeemable,
  • unachievable,
  • bleak,
  • spiritless,
  • up the creek,
  • despondent,
  • in despair,
  • dejected,
  • irrevocable,
  • discouraging,
  • miserable,
  • pessimistic,
  • fatal,
  • anguished,
  • gloomy,
  • ill-fated,
  • despairing,
  • dispirited,
  • forlorn,
  • beyond recall,
  • tragic,
  • unavailing,
  • impossible,
  • sinister,
  • depressed,
  • sad,
  • irreversible,
  • glum,
  • melancholy,
  • lost,
  • worsening,
  • useless,
  • shot down,
  • cynical,
  • threatening,
  • downhearted.
  •impossible (adjective)
  • unworkable,
  • unrecoverable,
  • unrealizable,
  • unattainable,
  • uncorrectable,
  • unobtainable,
  • unachievable,
  • unsuitable,
  • contrary to reason,
  • infeasible,
  • insurmountable.
  •incurable (adjective)
  • inoperable,
  • Immedicable,
  • irrecoverable,
  • Cureless.
  •reckless (adjective)
  • reckless.
  •useless (adjective)
  • unprofitable,
  • inutile,
  • ineffectual,
  • unusable.

• n.

  •
  • complete,
  • altogether,
  • perfectly,
  • literally,
  • absolute,
  • completely,
  • pure,
  • particular,
  • especially,
  • entire.
  •
  • incapable,
  • awful,
  • incompetent,
  • inept,
  • poor,
  • inexpert,
  • amateur.
  •
  • broken,
  • hope,
  • fatalistic,
  • negative.
  •
  • irremediable,
  • faltering,
  • unworkable,
  • uncompetitive,
  • disadvantageous,
  • irreparable,
  • Cureless,
  • unpromising,
  • shaky,
  • precarious.
  •despairing (noun)
  • sad,
  • cynical,
  • disconsolate.
  •discouraging (noun)
  • heartening,
  • ill-fated,
  • impracticable,
  • tragic,
  • favorable,
  • irreversible,
  • unserviceable,
  • disastrous,
  • irreclaimable,
  • irredeemable,
  • unfavorable,
  • menacing,
  • unfortunate,
  • irreparable,
  • incorrigible,
  • valueless,
  • irrevocable,
  • irretrievable,
  • useless,
  • empty,
  • fatal,
  • pointless,
  • dying,
  • impossible,
  • sinister,
  • worthless,
  • idle,
  • irrecoverable,
  • vain,
  • threatening,
  • Cureless,
  • insurmountable,
  • unavailing,
  • foreboding,
  • futile,
  • gone,
  • unyielding,
  • abandoned.
  •hopeless (noun)
  • desperate,
  • dim,
  • unskilled,
  • unhopeful,
  • despondent,
  • resigned,
  • bad,
  • incurable,
  • abject,
  • despairing,
  • lost,
  • futureless,
  • grim,
  • gloomy,
  • bleak,
  • helpless,
  • heartsick,
  • forlorn,
  • black,
  • insoluble.

• v.

  •displeased (verb)
  • disappointed.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • disadvantageous,
  • irredeemable,
  • irremediable,
  • fatalistic,
  • uncompetitive,
  • ill-fated,
  • inauspicious,
  • Cureless,
  • Whipped,
  • sad,
  • unpromising,
  • bleakly,
  • apocalyptic,
  • futile,
  • unworkable,
  • quixotic,
  • irreclaimable,
  • abandoned.
  •
  • hopelessly,
  • faltering,
  • overambitious,
  • precarious,
  • untenable,
  • unfavorable,
  • cynical.
  •
  • dying.
  •
  • broken,
  • shaky.
  •
  • negative.
  •cursed
  • luckless.
  •downhearted
  • wit.
  •futile
  • otiose,
  • useless.
  •incurable
  • irreparable,
  • incorrigible,
  • incurable.
  •irretrievable
  • irrecoverable.
  •nostalgic
  • wistful.
  •Other relevant words:
  • futile,
  • infelicitous,
  • deficient,
  • downbeat,
  • distraught,
  • impracticable,
  • Pluckless,
  • desolate,
  • unrecoverable,
  • distressing,
  • resigned,
  • lethal,
  • inept,
  • incapable,
  • unskillful,
  • irreformable,
  • unpromising,
  • bearish,
  • bootless,
  • insurmountable,
  • inutile,
  • demoralized,
  • insolvable,
  • worsening,
  • in extremis,
  • perfectly,
  • in articulo mortis,
  • unrealistic,
  • wit,
  • preposterous,
  • unalterable,
  • downcast,
  • in despair,
  • empty,
  • disadvantageous,
  • woeful,
  • unyielding,
  • goner,
  • reckless,
  • absolute,
  • uninterested,
  • unworkable,
  • foreboding,
  • disappointed,
  • useless,
  • complete,
  • indifferent,
  • particular,
  • supine,
  • unfortunate,
  • shaky,
  • inveterate,
  • ineffective,
  • hope,
  • absurd,
  • menacing,
  • inefficient,
  • done for,
  • altogether,
  • serious,
  • precarious,
  • comatose,
  • ill-fated,
  • grievous,
  • Cureless,
  • desensitized,
  • deleterious,
  • undoable,
  • hapless,
  • low-spirited,
  • intractable,
  • incorrigible,
  • pitiful,
  • habitual,
  • pure,
  • irredeemable,
  • beyond repair,
  • unattainable,
  • grim,
  • unrealizable,
  • pathetic,
  • inauspicious,
  • irrevocable,
  • relentless,
  • unskilful,
  • incompatible,
  • fatalistic,
  • hopelessly,
  • negative,
  • inextricable,
  • joyless,
  • dreary,
  • gone,
  • impossible,
  • defeatist,
  • sluggish,
  • faltering,
  • going,
  • unfit,
  • numb,
  • uncontrollable,
  • amateur,
  • lamentable,
  • moribund,
  • wicked,
  • vain,
  • life-threatening,
  • benumbed,
  • insoluble,
  • hardened,
  • unmitigable,
  • no-win,
  • irrecoverable,
  • irreparable,
  • bleakly,
  • stubborn,
  • troubling,
  • cynical,
  • unprofitable,
  • lethargic,
  • dim,
  • despair,
  • unpropitious,
  • contrary to reason,
  • intolerable,
  • unresolvable,
  • unfavorable,
  • inflexible,
  • distressed,
  • Excluded,
  • inconsolable,
  • unconcerned,
  • insuperable,
  • low,
  • phlegmatic,
  • disconsolate,
  • ominous,
  • unusable,
  • lousy,
  • ruined,
  • helpless,
  • sorrowful,
  • inoperable,
  • unproductive,
  • irreversible,
  • fatal,
  • inadequate,
  • inferior,
  • completely,
  • apathetic,
  • Desponding,
  • hazardous,
  • hoper,
  • deadly,
  • wretched,
  • down,
  • lugubrious,
  • sad,
  • apocalyptic,
  • funereal,
  • torpid,
  • otiose,
  • sinking,
  • hebetudinous,
  • discouraging,
  • dangerous,
  • idle,
  • deplorable,
  • abject,
  • entire,
  • talentless,
  • uncaring,
  • black,
  • awkward,
  • broken,
  • unfavourable,
  • inconceivable,
  • sinister,
  • pitiable,
  • stoic,
  • saturnine,
  • unqualified,
  • distracted,
  • literally,
  • blase,
  • Numbed,
  • regrettable,
  • upsetting,
  • difficult,
  • oxymoronic,
  • heartening,
  • listless,
  • ineffectual,
  • unsolvable,
  • luckless,
  • disinterested,
  • irremediable,
  • adverse,
  • barred,
  • unflagging,
  • unredeemable,
  • nonchalant,
  • obdurate,
  • uncompetitive,
  • slipping,
  • disastrous,
  • passive,
  • withdrawn,
  • terminal,
  • baleful,
  • beyond hope,
  • unchangeable,
  • expiring,
  • frantic,
  • darkening,
  • unfeasible,
  • feckless,
  • poor,
  • villainous,
  • pointless,
  • aloof,
  • paradoxical,
  • grave,
  • unskilled,
  • tragic,
  • incurable,
  • detached,
  • unbelievable,
  • awful,
  • unachievable,
  • insufferable,
  • knotty,
  • heavy-hearted,
  • sinful,
  • especially,
  • heartsick,
  • unsuitable,
  • shot down,
  • dying,
  • unthinkable,
  • favorable,
  • untenable,
  • quixotic,
  • soporific,
  • unhopeful,
  • lost,
  • ill-chosen,
  • depressing,
  • perilous,
  • woebegone,
  • Immedicable,
  • worthless,
  • dull,
  • unsuccessful,
  • nonviable,
  • frenzied,
  • beyond recall,
  • futureless,
  • bad,
  • incompetent,
  • unavailing,
  • kaput,
  • uncorrectable,
  • disturbing,
  • ridiculous,
  • given up,
  • portentous,
  • sunk,
  • irretrievable,
  • threatening,
  • Broken-hearted,
  • up the creek,
  • inexpert,
  • languid,
  • inaccessible,
  • unrectifiable,
  • heartless,
  • oppressive,
  • overambitious,
  • infeasible,
  • mournful,
  • comfortless,
  • unserviceable,
  • self-contradictory,
  • stupefied,
  • naughty,
  • prohibited,
  • slack,
  • blah,
  • unhappy,
  • unimaginable,
  • wistful,
  • blue,
  • tenuous,
  • valueless,
  • abandoned,
  • insouciant,
  • past hope,
  • unobtainable,
  • slipping away,
  • Whipped,
  • declining,
  • irreclaimable.

Antonyms for Hopeless:

• adj.

  • all
    hopeful.
  • bleak
    nice, comforting, cheerful, congenial, pleasant.
  • depressing
    cheering, happy.
  • despairing
    confident, encouraged.
  • despondent
    up, elated, spirited.
  • disappointed
    delighted, pleased, excited, satisfied.
  • disconsolate
    Soothed, Consoled, Solaced.
  • dismal
    glad, light.
  • feckless
    useful, strong, effectual, efficient, responsible, effective, purposeful, competent.
  • hopeless
    optimistic, hopeful, expectant, promising, encouraging, propitious, rosy, bright, auspicious.
  • Other antonyms:
    exhilarated, retrievable, cheering, encouraged, penitent, happy, vivacious, sprightly, jovial, functional, euphoric, rueful, glad, Sprightful, animated, rectifiable, conceivable, practical, regretful, usable, delighted, entranced, sunny, fixable, jubilant, blithesome, reparable, cheery, remorseful, enraptured, acceptable, pollyannaish, joyous, blissful, reformable, idealist, jocund, mirthful, gleeful, positive, visionary, buoyant, romantic, ecstatic, heartened, skilled, correctable, reversible, exultant, recoverable, curable, reclaimable, joyful, Savable, utopian, reasonable, reassuring, lively, cheerful, salvageable, sorry, useful, redeemable, Salvable, lightsome, merry, repairable, Panglossian, comforting, applicable, jolly, gladsome, blithe, elated, chipper, remediable, jaunty, exuberant, working, Pollyanna, perky, gladdened, repentant, serviceable.

• Other antonyms:

  • n.
    found, goodness, saved, white, whiteness, won.