Antonym: hopeful. Similar words: telescope, careless, homeless, nonetheless, guileless, senseless, changeless, nevertheless. Meaning: ['həʊplɪs] adj. 1. without hope because there seems to be no possibility of comfort or success 2. of a person unable to do something skillfully 3. certain to fail 4. (informal to emphasize how bad it is) beyond hope of management or reform.
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121. Even when they do meet, on flat overcast weekday afternoons at her house, it's often hopeless.
122. I was no good at rugby and hopeless at cricket.
123. Doctors can now help people who were once considered hopeless cases. Sentencedict.com
124. But even after all these measures had been adopted a number of projects continued to operate at a hopeless loss.
125. With every day that passed he became ever more despairing and hopeless as messengers brought him reports of the army's casualties.
126. The images of these hopeless, hungry people haunted her, filling her with outrage.
127. But it was almost hopeless, her inattention to bathing being only one of her failings.
128. "I do not believe that working to block the movement of cocaine into the US is a hopeless cause," McCaffrey told the panel.
129. He resorted to his only hopeless defence ... and screwed his eyes shut.
130. Mrs Field summoned the vet immediately, who said it was in a hopeless condition and should be put down at once.
131. It's hopeless to try to persuade him while he's in this mood. Let's talk to him tomorrow.
132. An exercise in black humour set in an enclosed and hopeless world, the film ends with him remaining behind bars.
133. But, deep down, they had always known it was hopeless.
134. It was a hopeless task to identify David among so many people.
135. Gilbert waited for the lightning strike that would finally find them, and began to babble a hopeless prayer.
136. If Lee didn't know if his Dad was his Dad or not, he must be a hopeless case.
137. I went to all the big shops, but it was hopeless.
138. I pore over the hopeless, resigned faces, the emaciated bodies, the stick-like limbs.
139. It was a hopeless task, we were slowly sinking in the mire.
140. Many of us ignore government, assuming that we are too busy to waste our time on such a hopeless cause.
141. Police now face the hopeless task of trying to find the bombers.
142. It's hopeless! Tomorrow there will be even more books I should have read than there are today. Ashleigh Brilliant
143. What had she thought, that their purpose led to another hopeless middle-class trap.
144. The reader can appreciate her desperation as her love for Macbeth becomes hopeless.
145. ""Please let me go to the party'' Ali begged her mother, but she knew it was hopeless.
146. Many of the pens were empty, however, and the shepherds who lounged on the rails there had a hopeless look.
147. They portrayed the family as hopeless, without possibility of improvement, and wanted the children kept in care.
148. No hopeless lover of a living maiden was ever so desperately unhappy as Pygmallon.
149. She looked around like a person hopeless of finding one small item in a huge storehouse.
150. Realizing that her plight was hopeless, Echo fled from the wood, tears pouring down her cheeks.
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