Hopeless - English meaning

adjective

Extremely bad; appalling.

Usage examples:

The quality of her work is abysmal

adjective

Causing shock or dismay; horrific.

Usage examples:

The cat suffered appalling injuries during the attack

verb

Greatly dismay or horrify.

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Bankers are appalled at the economic incompetence of some ministers

adjective

Horrifyingly wicked.

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Atrocious cruelties

adjective

Very bad or unpleasant.

Usage examples:

The place smelled awful

adverb

Awfully; very.

Usage examples:

We're an awful long way from the motorway

noun

A person who expects or is excessively ready to accept failure.

Usage examples:

It also appeals to defeatists, cynics, and worldly-wise men who are not prepared to try to change t…

adjective

Demonstrating expectation or acceptance of failure.

Usage examples:

We have a duty not to be so defeatist

adjective

Having no hope and expecting to fail

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Being defeatist will get us nowhere., he's got such a defeatist attitude., i can't believe it - you…

adjective

Sad and depressed; dispirited.

Usage examples:

He stood in the street looking dejected

verb

Make sad or dispirited; depress.

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Nothing dejects a trader like the interruption of his profits

adjective

Unhappy, disappointed, or lacking hope

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William felt dejected because he had sprained his ankle and had to sit out the game.

adjective

Having lost confidence or hope; disheartened.

Usage examples:

How do you motivate demoralized employees?

verb

Cause (someone) to lose confidence or hope.

Usage examples:

The general strike had demoralized the trade unions

adjective

Having lost your confidence, enthusiasm, and hope

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After the game, the players were tired and demoralized.

adjective

Showing the loss of all hope.

Usage examples:

He gave a despairing little shrug

verb

Lose or be without hope.

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We should not despair

adjective

Showing or feeling that there is no hope and that you can do nothing to improve a difficult or worrying situation

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A despairing glance/cry, with every day that passed he became ever more despairing.

adjective

Feeling or showing a hopeless sense that a situation is so bad as to be impossible to deal with.

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A desperate sadness enveloped ruth

adjective

Showing a willingness to take any risk in order to change a bad or dangerous situation

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The ads are a desperate attempt to win last-minute votes., desperate criminals, there’s a desperate…

adjective

In low spirits from loss of hope or courage.

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She grew more and more despondent

adjective

Unhappy and discouraged because you feel you are in a situation that is unlikely to improve

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He grew increasingly despondent when his paintings failed to sell.

adjective

Extremely serious or urgent.

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Misuse of drugs can have dire consequences

adjective

Very serious or extreme

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Cheating will bring dire consequences.

adjective

Very unhappy and unable to be comforted.

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She left fritz looking disconsolate

adjective

Extremely sad and disappointed

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The players were disconsolate after losing what should have been an easy game.

adjective

(of a person's eyes) looking downwards.

Usage examples:

Her modestly downcast eyes

noun

A shaft dug in a mine for extra ventilation.

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The probable explanation is, that the return air was leaking across into the downcast shaft at vari…

adjective

Looking down, usually because of being shy or sad

adjective

Discouraged; in low spirits.

Usage examples:

Fans must not be downhearted even though we lost

adjective

Unhappy, esp. because of failure or because you are disappointed

adjective

Causing or involving great suffering, fear, or unhappiness; extremely bad or serious.

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There's been a dreadful accident

adjective

Very bad

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I realized i had committed a dreadful mistake.

noun

A flour pudding boiled or steamed in a cloth bag.

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A currant duff

adjective

Of very poor quality.

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Duff lyrics

noun

Decaying vegetable matter covering the ground under trees.

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Generally the fires in this area burn the duff and underbrush and scorch a few trees

adjective

Pitifully sad and abandoned or lonely.

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Forlorn figures at bus stops

adjective

Looking or feeling alone and sad because you need help but do not expect to get it

Usage examples:

As i left little bobby on his first day of school, he gave me such a forlorn look.

adjective

Very unpleasant, serious, or shocking.

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There's been a most frightful accident

adjective

Lacking the quality or quantity required; insufficient for a purpose.

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These labels prove to be wholly inadequate

adjective

Too low in quality or too small in amount; not enough

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An inadequate income/offer, i feel inadequate when i talk to miranda about art because she knows so…

adjective

Too small in amount

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Inadequate funds/incomes/pensions too many of us are retiring on hopelessly inadequate incomes., th…

adjective

Not having or showing the necessary skills to do something successfully.

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A forgetful and utterly incompetent assistant

noun

An incompetent person.

Usage examples:

The tanker captain was a known incompetent

adjective

Lacking the skills or knowledge to do a job or perform an action correctly or to a satisfactory standard

Usage examples:

Cowden was incompetent and incapable of administering the duties of secretary of the association., …

adjective

Not producing any significant or desired effect.

Usage examples:

The legal sanctions against oil spills are virtually ineffective

adjective

Not producing the results that are wanted; not effective

Usage examples:

Those pills were ineffective – i still have a headache.

adjective

Lower in rank, status, or quality.

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Schooling in inner-city areas was inferior to that in the rest of the country

noun

A person lower than another in rank, status, or ability.

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Her social and intellectual inferiors

adjective

Impossible to cure or put right.

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Irremediable marital breakdowns

adjective

Very poor or bad.

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The service is usually lousy

adjective

Bad or unpleasant

Usage examples:

The city does a lousy job of snow removal., i thought the movie was lousy.

adjective

Consisting in or characterized by the absence rather than the presence of distinguishing features.

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The records of her transaction, and loan would have been available and in their absence i draw a ne…

noun

A word or statement that expresses denial, disagreement, or refusal.

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She replied in the negative

verb

Refuse to accept; reject.

Usage examples:

The bill was negatived on second reading by 130 votes to 129

adjective

Arousing pity, especially through vulnerability or sadness.

Usage examples:

She looked so pathetic that i bent down to comfort her

adjective

Causing feelings of sadness or sympathy

Usage examples:

I think it’s pathetic that only half of the eligible voters tend to vote., a pathetic excuse, berni…

adjective

Tending to see the worst aspect of things or believe that the worst will happen.

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He was pessimistic about the prospects

adjective

Thinking that bad things are more likely to happen or emphasizing the bad part of a situation

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The tone of the meeting was very pessimistic., the doctors are pessimistic (= not hopeful) about hi…

adjective

Having accepted something unpleasant that one cannot do anything about.

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My response is a resigned shrug of the shoulders

verb

Voluntarily leave a job or office.

Usage examples:

He resigned from the company in protest of the treatment of his co-workers

adjective

Willing to accept something unpleasant

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They are resigned and a little depressed at the thought of losing money for at least the first year.

adjective

Suffering from decay.

Usage examples:

Rotten eggs

adverb

To an extreme degree; very much.

Usage examples:

Your mother said that i spoiled you rotten

adjective

See at rot.

Usage examples:

A rotten trick, rotten behavior

noun

Waste material; refuse or litter.

Usage examples:

Householders may be charged for the removal of non-recyclable rubbish

verb

Criticize severely and reject as worthless.

Usage examples:

He rubbished the idea of a european community-wide carbon tax

adjective

Very bad; worthless or useless.

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People might say i was a rubbish manager

adjective

Extremely bad or serious.

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A terrible crime

adjective

Not fulfilling or not expected to achieve the intended purpose or desired outcome.

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A piece of useless knowledge

adjective

Of no value; worthless

Usage examples:

With dead batteries, the flashlight was useless.

adjective

Sad or miserable in appearance.

Usage examples:

Don't look so woebegone, joanna

adjective

Looking very sad

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When he wants to go for a walk, the dog sits by the door with a woebegone expression., there's no n…

adjective

(of a person) in a very unhappy or unfortunate state.

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I felt so wretched because i thought i might never see you again

adjective

Unhappy or extremely sad

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He looked so ill and wretched as he spoke that he made me feel wretched myself., workers lived in w…