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
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing 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
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
