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as in incurable
not capable of being cured or reformed
a hopeless optimist who looked for the good in everyone and everything was a hopeless romantic who never stopped looking for a soul mate
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as in cynical
emphasizing or expecting the worst
the poor woman was feeling hopeless about ever finding her lost cat
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as in impossible
incapable of being solved or accomplished
keeping this desk organized is hopeless
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as in desperate
feeling or showing no hope
the hopeless look on the faces of the fans as the other team scored again
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Recent Examples of hopeless
There are so many hopeless people out there struggling right now financially and with providing for their families.
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Jordan Greene, People.com, 18 Mar. 2025
Sabah had a hopeless prognosis: severe brain edema.
—Ayesha Khan, The New Yorker, 17 Mar. 2025
And for being a world-renowned psychiatrist, isn’t Taylor awfully quick to write off people as hopeless cases?
—Nick Caruso, TVLine, 7 Mar. 2025
No Other Land is a living document of a people being systematically erased, as well as a cry for intervention, one that grows more hopeless and dispirited as the film goes on.
—Joe Reid, Vulture, 28 Feb. 2025
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Jordan Greene, People.com, 18 Mar. 2025
Sabah had a hopeless prognosis: severe brain edema.
—Ayesha Khan, The New Yorker, 17 Mar. 2025
And for being a world-renowned psychiatrist, isn’t Taylor awfully quick to write off people as hopeless cases?
—Nick Caruso, TVLine, 7 Mar. 2025
No Other Land is a living document of a people being systematically erased, as well as a cry for intervention, one that grows more hopeless and dispirited as the film goes on.
—Joe Reid, Vulture, 28 Feb. 2025
See All Example Sentences for hopeless
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hopeless
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But after bouts of food poisoning on her vacation, she was diagnosed with an incurable autoimmune disease.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
Newsweek,
23 Mar. 2025
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Wynn suffers from retinitis pigmentosa, an incurable eye disease.—
Alex Isenstadt,
Axios,
16 Mar. 2025
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Val did something special with a typical 1980s cynical rebel/wisecracker role, giving his character a layer of big brother warmth.—
KiMi Robinson,
USA Today,
2 Apr. 2025
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On the movie front, Viola Davis is an endangered POTUS in G20, Tom Hardy plays a cynical detective in Havoc, and documentary subjects include the Stranger Things stage production, the Milwaukee Brewers’ 1982 season and the Disney cult classic A Goofy Movie.—
Ryan Schwartz,
TVLine,
31 Mar. 2025
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Payton Gendron's attorneys filed the request Monday in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York, arguing that assembling an impartial jury would be impossible in the area affected by the shooting.—
Krystal Nurse,
USA Today,
3 Apr. 2025
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As a leader, don't hesitate to challenge your team to achieve what seems impossible—beneath the initial resistance often lies the opportunity for their most fulfilling professional experiences.—
Jack Zenger,
Forbes.com,
3 Apr. 2025
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With the Red Army closing in, such gatherings, expressions of a desperate gaiety, a fin d’une époque efflorescence, weren’t rare.—
James Wood,
New Yorker,
7 Apr. 2025
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The prey is the financially desperate with the idea being that debtors are going to lose their money to creditors anyway.—
Jay Adkisson,
Forbes.com,
7 Apr. 2025
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But Atletico regained a foothold and deservedly equalised around the half-hour mark, when Alvarez produced his own curling effort past the despairing dive of Madrid’s ex-Atleti No 1 Thibaut Courtois.—
Dermot Corrigan,
New York Times,
4 Apr. 2025
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Reduced to occasionally doing commercials for used cars, and spending most of his days drinking, despairing, and sporadically playing Russian roulette in a retirement home for actors, the curmudgeonly Montana has a death wish that only sheer luck has kept him from fulfilling.—
Joe Leydon,
Variety,
5 Mar. 2025
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Kwong grew up hearing stories of every kind about Manzanar—scary, sad, funny and infuriating.—
Rachel Ng,
Smithsonian Magazine,
27 Mar. 2025
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Yet, whatever the deal means for Paul, Weiss, its acquiescence to Trump marks a sad day for the legal profession—or what once was a profession, and is now just another business.—
Ruth Marcus,
New Yorker,
27 Mar. 2025
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This piece won’t be one of those pessimistic about baseball’s future.—
Harry Enten,
CNN Money,
29 Mar. 2025
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But the more pessimistic outlook now appears more realistic.—
Paul Du Quenoy,
MSNBC Newsweek,
28 Mar. 2025
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Despite that success, Willard was unhappy with the program’s financial commitments.—
Taylor Lyons,
Baltimore Sun,
30 Mar. 2025
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The extra time will presumably be used to fix whatever about the season executives are unhappy with.—
Ron Estes,
MSNBC Newsweek,
29 Mar. 2025
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“Hopeless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hopeless. Accessed 12 Apr. 2025.
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