THESAURUS
hopeless
Laodicean, Olympian, Pollyanna, absurd, affording no hope, aloof, apathetic, bad, barred, benumbed, blah, blase, bleak, bootless, cheerless, closed-out, comatose, comfortless, contrary to reason, cureless, deadly, deficient, dejected, depressed, desensitized, despaired of, despairing, desperate, despondent, desponding, detached, disconsolate, discouraged, disinterested, dismal, done for, downcast, dull, dying, excluded, expiring, facing death, fatal, forlorn, funereal, futile, given up, gloomy, glum, going, gone, grim, heartless, hebetudinous, hoper, immedicable, impossible, impracticable, in a stupor, in articulo mortis, in despair, in extremis, inadequate, incapable of life, incompetent, inconceivable, inconsolable, incorrigible, incurable, indifferent, inept, inferior, insoluble, insouciant, irredeemable, irremediable, irreparable, irretrievable, languid, lethal, lethargic, listless, logically impossible, lost, low, lugubrious, melancholy, miserable, moribund, morose, near death, nonchalant, nonviable, not possible, numb, numbed, oxymoronic, paradoxical, passive, phlegmatic, pluckless, pointless, poor, preposterous, prohibited, resigned, ridiculous, ruled-out, sad, self-contradictory, sinking, slack, slipping, slipping away, sluggish, soporific, sorrowful, spiritless, spunkless, stoic, stupefied, supine, terminal, torpid, unavailing, uncaring, unconcerned, uncorrectable, unfit, unhappy, unhopeful, unimaginable, uninterested, unqualified, unthinkable, unworkable, useless, vain, withdrawn, without hope, woebegone, worthless, wretched
ROGET THESAURUS
hopeless
Hopelessness
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hopelessness, despair, desperation, despondency, depression, pessimism, pessimist, Job's comforter, bird of bad omen, bird of ill omen, abandonment, desolation, resignation, surrender, submission, hope deferred, dashed hopes, vain expectation, airy hopes &c, forlorn hope, gone case, dead duck, gone coon, goner, bad job, bad business, enfant perdu, gloomy horizon, black spots in the horizon, slough of Despond, cave of Despair, immedicabile vulnus,
hopeless, desperate, despairing, gone, in despair, au desespoir, forlorn, desolate, inconsolable, broken hearted, unpromising, unpropitious, inauspicious, ill-omened, threatening, clouded over, out of the question, not to be thought of, impracticable, past hope, past cure, past mending, past recall, at one's last gasp, given up, given over, incurable, cureless, immedicable, remediless, beyond remedy, incorrigible, irreparable, irremediable, irrecoverable, irreversible, irretrievable, irreclaimable, irredeemable, irrevocable, ruined, undone, immitigable, lasciate ogni speranza voi ch'entrate, its days are numbered, the worst come to the worst, no change, no pause, no hope, yet I endure, O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, mene mene tekel upharson.