Hopelessness

Synonyms for hopelessness
noun despair

gloom
melancholy
desperation
sorrow
despondency

misery
discouragement
anguish
ordeal
pain

dejection
trial
tribulation
despondence
wretchedness

desperateness
despond
forlornness
disheartenment
dashed hopes

Antonyms for hopelessness

encouragement
happiness
joy

contentment
cheer
pleasure

comfort
peace

Concept Thesaurus for word hopelessness
3. Prospective Affections
Synonyms – noun

hopelessness
pessimism
bird of ill omen.
airy hopes
bad job
black spots in the horizon

despair
pessimist
hope deferred
forlorn hope
bad business
slough of Despond

desperation
Job’s comforter
dashed hopes
gone case
enfant perdu
cave of Despair

despondency (dejection)
bird of bad omen
vain expectation (disappointment)
goner
gloomy horizon
immedicabile vulnus.

Synonyms – verbs

despair
relinquish all hope
relinquish the hope of
falter
drive to despair
destroy one’s hopes

lose all hope
lose the hope of
give up
despond (be dejected)
disconcert
hope against hope.

give up all hope
give up the hope of
give over
jeter le manche apres la cognee.
dash one’s hopes

abandon all hope
abandon the hope of
yield to despair
inspire despair
crush one’s hopes

Synonyms – adjectives

hopeless
in despair
brokenhearted.
past hope
at one’s last gasp (death) [more]
cureless
incorrigible
irreversible
irrevocable
unpromising
threatening

desperate
au desespoir
out of the question
past cure
given up
immedicable
irreparable
irretrievable
ruined
unpropitious
clouded over.

despairing
forlorn
not to be thought of
past mending
given over.
remediless
irremediable
irreclaimable
undone
unauspicious

gone
inconsolable (dejected)
impracticable
past recall
incurable
beyond remedy
irrecoverable
irredeemable
immitigable.
ill-omened

Synonyms – phrases
“lasciate ogni speranza voi ch’ entrate” [Dante]; its days are numbered; the worst come to the worst; “no change, no pause, no hope, yet I endure” [Shelley];
Antonyms

hope

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Other adjectives related to hopelessness

at one’s last gasp
forlorn
ill
inconsolable
irrecoverable
irretrievable
out of the question
past recall
undone

beyond remedy
given over
impracticable
incorrigible
irredeemable
irreversible
past cure
remediless
unpromising

broken
given up
in despair
incurable
irremediable
irrevocable
past hope
ruined
unpropitious

despairing
hopeless
inauspicious
irreclaimable
irreparable
not to be thought of
past mending
threatening

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