| hopeless | | |
| adj. | 1. hopeless | 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" |
| ~ discouraging | depriving of confidence or hope or enthusiasm and hence often deterring action.; "where never is heard a discouraging word" |
| ~ unhopeful, abject | showing utter resignation or hopelessness.; "abject surrender" |
| ~ bleak, black, dim | offering little or no hope.; "the future looked black"; "prospects were bleak"; "Life in the Aran Islands has always been bleak and difficult"; "took a dim view of things" |
| ~ despairing, desperate | arising from or marked by despair or loss of hope.; "a despairing view of the world situation"; "the last despairing plea of the condemned criminal"; "a desperate cry for help"; "helpless and desperate--as if at the end of his tether"; "her desperate screams" |
| ~ despondent, heartsick | without or almost without hope.; "despondent about his failure"; "too heartsick to fight back" |
| ~ forlorn | marked by or showing hopelessness.; "the last forlorn attempt"; "a forlorn cause" |
| ~ futureless | having no prospect or hope of a future. |
| ~ helpless, lost | unable to function; without help. |
| ~ insoluble | without hope of solution.; "an insoluble problem" |
| ~ pessimistic | expecting the worst possible outcome. |
| ~ impossible | not capable of occurring or being accomplished or dealt with.; "an impossible dream"; "an impossible situation" |
| adj. | 2. hopeless | of a person unable to do something skillfully.; "I'm hopeless at mathematics" |
| ~ unskilled | not having or showing or requiring special skill or proficiency.; "unskilled in the art of rhetoric"; "an enthusiastic but unskillful mountain climber"; "unskilled labor"; "workers in unskilled occupations are finding fewer and fewer job opportunities"; "unskilled workmanship" |
| adj. | 3. hopeless | certain to fail.; "the situation is hopeless" |
| ~ impossible | not capable of occurring or being accomplished or dealt with.; "an impossible dream"; "an impossible situation" |
| adj. | 4. hopeless | (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" |
| ~ colloquialism | a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech. |
| ~ bad | having undesirable or negative qualities.; "a bad report card"; "his sloppy appearance made a bad impression"; "a bad little boy"; "clothes in bad shape"; "a bad cut"; "bad luck"; "the news was very bad"; "the reviews were bad"; "the pay is bad"; "it was a bad light for reading"; "the movie was a bad choice" |
| prospect | | |
| n. (state) | 1. chance, prospect | the possibility of future success.; "his prospects as a writer are excellent" |
| ~ potential, potentiality, potency | the inherent capacity for coming into being. |
| n. (cognition) | 2. expectation, outlook, prospect | belief about (or mental picture of) the future. |
| ~ belief | any cognitive content held as true. |
| ~ promise, hope | grounds for feeling hopeful about the future.; "there is little or no promise that he will recover" |
| ~ foretaste | an early limited awareness of something yet to occur. |
| ~ possibility | a future prospect or potential.; "this room has great possibilities" |
| ~ anticipation, expectancy | something expected (as on the basis of a norm).; "each of them had their own anticipations"; "an indicator of expectancy in development" |
| ~ misgiving, apprehension | painful expectation. |
| n. (person) | 3. candidate, prospect | someone who is considered for something (for an office or prize or honor etc.). |
| ~ individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul | a human being.; "there was too much for one person to do" |
| n. (cognition) | 4. aspect, panorama, prospect, scene, view, vista | the visual percept of a region.; "the most desirable feature of the park are the beautiful views" |
| ~ visual percept, visual image | a percept that arises from the eyes; an image in the visual system. |
| ~ background, ground | the part of a scene (or picture) that lies behind objects in the foreground.; "he posed her against a background of rolling hills" |
| ~ coast | the area within view.; "the coast is clear" |
| ~ exposure | aspect resulting from the direction a building or window faces.; "the studio had a northern exposure" |
| ~ foreground | the part of a scene that is near the viewer. |
| ~ glimpse | a brief or incomplete view.; "from the window he could catch a glimpse of the lake" |
| ~ middle distance | the part of a scene between the foreground and the background. |
| ~ side view | a view from the side of something. |
| ~ tableau | any dramatic scene. |
| n. (act) | 5. medical prognosis, prognosis, prospect | a prediction of the course of a disease. |
| ~ medical diagnosis | identification of a disease from its symptoms. |
| v. (perception) | 6. prospect | search for something desirable.; "prospect a job" |
| ~ search, look | search or seek.; "We looked all day and finally found the child in the forest"; "Look elsewhere for the perfect gift!" |
| v. (cognition) | 7. prospect | explore for useful or valuable things or substances, such as minerals. |
| ~ explore, research, search | inquire into.; "the students had to research the history of the Second World War for their history project"; "He searched for information on his relatives on the web"; "Scientists are exploring the nature of consciousness" |
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