Synonyms of the word

hopeless

• adj. Without hope; despairing; not expecting anything positive.
• adj. Giving no ground of hope; promising nothing desirable; desperate.
• adj. Without talent, not skilled.

abject

• adj. (obsolete) Rejected; cast aside.
• adj. Sunk to or existing in a low condition, state, or position.
• adj. Cast down in spirit or hope; degraded; servile; grovelling; despicable; lacking courage; offered in a…
• adj. Showing utter hopelessness, helplessness; showing resignation; wretched.
• n. A person in the lowest and most despicable condition; a castaway; outcast.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To cast off or out; to reject.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To cast down; hence, to abase; to degrade; to lower; to debase.

bad

• adj. Not good; unfavorable; negative.
• adj. Not suitable or fitting.
• adj. Seemingly non-appropriate, in manners, etc.
• adj. Unhealthy.
• adj. Tricky; stressful; unpleasant.
• adj. Evil; wicked.
• adj. Faulty; not functional.
• adj. (of food) Spoiled, rotten, overripe.
• adj. (of breath) Malodorous, foul.
• adj. (informal) Bold and daring.
• adj. (hip-hop slang) good, superlative.
• adj. (of a need or want) Severe, urgent.
• adv. (now colloquial) Badly.
• n. (slang) Error, mistake.
• n. (countable, uncountable, economics) An item (or kind of item) of merchandise with negative value; an unwanted…
• adj. (slang) Fantastic.
• v. (archaic) Alternative past tense of bid. See bade.
• v. (Britain, dialect, transitive) To shell (a walnut).

black

• adj. (of an object) Absorbing all light and reflecting none; dark and hueless.
• adj. (of a place, etc) Without light.
• adj. (sometimes capitalized) Of or relating to any of various ethnic groups having dark pigmentation of the…
• adj. (chiefly historical) Designated for use by those ethnic groups which have dark pigmentation of the skin.
• adj. (card games, of a card) Of the spades or clubs suits. Compare red (“of the hearts or diamonds suit”).
• adj. Bad; evil; ill-omened.
• adj. Expressing menace, or discontent; threatening; sullen.
• adj. Illegitimate, illegal or disgraced.
• adj. (Ireland, informal) Overcrowded.
• adj. (of coffee or tea) Without any cream, milk, or creamer.
• adj. (board games, chess) Of or relating to the playing pieces of a board game deemed to belong to the "black"…
• adj. (typography) Said of a symbol or character that is solid, filled with color. Compare white (“said of a…
• adj. (politics) Related to the Christian Democratic Union of Germany.
• adj. Relating to an initiative whose existence or exact nature must remain withheld from the general public.
• n. (countable and uncountable) The colour/color perceived in the absence of light, but also when no light…
• n. (countable and uncountable) A black dye or pigment.
• n. (countable) A pen, pencil, crayon, etc., made of black pigment.
• n. (in the plural) Black cloth hung up at funerals.
• n. (sometimes capitalised, countable) A person of African, Aborigine, or Maori descent; a dark-skinned person.
• n. (billiards, snooker, pool, with the, countable) The black ball.
• n. (baseball, countable) The edge of home plate.
• n. (Britain, countable) a type of firecracker that is really more dark brown in colour.
• n. (informal, countable) blackcurrant syrup (in mixed drinks, e.g. snakebite and black, cider and black).
• n. (in chess and similar games, countable) The person playing with the black set of pieces.
• n. (countable) Part of a thing which is distinguished from the rest by being black.
• n. (obsolete, countable) A stain; a spot.
• v. To make black, to blacken.
• v. To apply blacking to something.
• v. (Britain) To boycott something or someone, usually as part of an industrial dispute.

bleak

• adj. Without color; pale; pallid.
• adj. Desolate and exposed; swept by cold winds.
• adj. Unhappy; cheerless; miserable; emotionally desolate.
• n. A small European river fish (Alburnus alburnus), of the family Cyprinidae.

darkening

• v. present participle of darken.
• n. The act of something becoming darker.

despairing

• adj. Feeling, expressing, or caused by despair; hopeless.
• v. present participle of despair.
• n. A mood or display of despair.

desperate

• adj. Being filled with, or in a state of despair; hopeless.
• adj. Without regard to danger or safety; reckless; furious.
• adj. Beyond hope; causing despair; extremely perilous; irretrievable.
• adj. Extreme, in a bad sense; outrageous.
• adj. Extremely intense.
• adj. In need of something very much.

despondent

• adj. In low spirits from loss of hope or courage.

dim

• adj. Not bright or colorful.
• adj. (colloquial) Not smart or intelligent.
• adj. Indistinct, hazy or unclear.
• adj. Disapproving, unfavorable: rarely used outside the phrase take a dim view of.
• adv. Dimly, indistinctly.
• n. (archaic) Dimness.
• v. (transitive) To make something less bright.
• v. (intransitive) To become darker.
• v. To render dim, obscure, or dark; to make less bright or distinct; to take away the luster of; to darken;…
• v. To deprive of distinct vision; to hinder from seeing clearly, either by dazzling or clouding the eyes;…

discouraging

• v. present participle of discourage.
• adj. that causes discouragement.
• n. discouragement.

forlorn

• v. (obsolete) past participle of forlese.
• adj. Abandoned, left behind, deserted.
• adj. Miserable, as when lonely being abandoned.
• adj. Unlikely to succeed.
• n. (military) A forlorn hope.
• n. (military) A member of a forlorn hope.

futureless

• adj. Without a future.
• adj. (linguistics, of a language) That has no future tense.

gloomy

• adj. Imperfectly illuminated; dismal through obscurity or darkness; dusky; dim; clouded.
• adj. Affected with, or expressing, gloom; melancholy; dejected.

grim

• adj. dismal and gloomy, cold and forbidding.
• adj. rigid and unrelenting.
• adj. ghastly or sinister.
• adj. (Britain, slang) disgusting; gross.

heartsick

• adj. Very despondent or sorrowful.

helpless

• adj. Unable to defend oneself.
• adj. Unable to act without help.
• adj. Uncontrollable.
• adj. (obsolete) From which there is no possibility of being saved.

impossible

• adj. Not possible; not able to be done or happen.
• adj. (colloquial, of a person) Very difficult to deal with.
• adj. (mathematics, dated) imaginary.
• n. (obsolete) an impossibility.

insoluble

• adj. That cannot be dissolved.
• adj. That cannot be solved; unsolvable; insolvable.
• adj. That cannot be explained; mysterious or inexplicable.
• adj. That cannot be broken down; dispersed.
• n. Any substance that cannot be dissolved.

lost

• v. simple past tense and past participle of lose.
• adj. Having wandered from, or unable to find, the way.
• adj. In an unknown location; unable to be found.
• adj. Not perceptible to the senses; no longer visible.
• adj. Parted with; no longer held or possessed.
• adj. Not employed or enjoyed; thrown away; employed ineffectually; wasted; squandered.
• adj. Ruined or destroyed, either physically or morally; past help or hope.
• adj. Hardened beyond sensibility or recovery; alienated; insensible.
• adj. Occupied with, or under the influence of, something, so as not to notice external things.

pessimistic

• adj. Marked by pessimism and little hopefulness; expecting the worst.
• adj. Pertaining to the worst-case scenario.
• adj. (computing) Taking out exclusive locks on data to prevent conflicts with other processes that might modify…

resigned

• adj. Characterized by resignation or acceptance.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of resign.

unhopeful

• adj. Not hopeful.
• n. Somebody who is unlikely to achieve success or victory.

unskilled

• adj. Of a person or workforce: not having a skill or technical training.
• adj. Of a job: not requiring skill or training.
• adj. Of a made object: inexpertly made or showing a lack of skill.