Synonyms for hopeless
- adjective
All synonyms
Adjective
desperate, forlorn, despairing, despondent, impossible, bad, incorrigible, bleak, lost, incompetent, incurable, pessimistic, disconsolate, unpromising, cheerless, feckless, irremediable, dark, impracticable, inferior, rueful, black, wet, insoluble, unhopeful, wretched, dejected, dismal, grim, gloomy, melancholy, sorrowful, desolate, woebegone
Definitions
- adj. 1
Without hope; despairing; not expecting anything positive.
Related words
- Word family
- hopelessly hopelessness
Example sentences
- impossible It'll be impossible to get a visa at short notice.
- desperate Sami was desperate to keep his family above water.
- despondent Millions of Russians feel cheated and despondent.
- incompetent Incompetent people are the ones who talk the most.
- bleak To some people, Algeria's future is looking bleak.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| hopeless | rising | |
| impossible | steady | |
| desperate | rising | |
| despondent | rising | |
| despairing | rising | |
| incompetent | falling |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 3 letters
- bad1, wet1
- 4 letters
- lost1, dark1, grim1
- 5 letters
- black1, bleak1
- 6 letters
- gloomy2, dismal2, rueful2
- 7 letters
- forlorn2
- 8 letters
- inferior4, wretched2, desolate3, dejected3, feckless2
- 9 letters
- desperate2, incurable4, insoluble4, sorrowful3, cheerless, woebegone3, unhopeful
- 10 letters
- impossible4, melancholy4, despondent3, despairing3
- 11 letters
- incompetent4, pessimistic4, unpromising4
- 12 letters
- incorrigible5, disconsolate, irremediable6
- 13 letters
- impracticable5
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (gloomy2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- indécrottable
- Deutsch
- unverbesserlich