hopelessness

hopelessness
Synonyms and related words:
Schmerz, Slough of Despond, absurdity, acedia, aloofness, apathy, ataraxia, ataraxy, benumbedness, blah, blahs, blank despondency, comatoseness, death wish, dejectedness, dejection, depression, despair, despondency, despondentness, detachment, discouragement, disheartenment, disinterest, dispassion, dispiritedness, down trip, downcastness, downer, downheartedness, drooping spirits, dullness, heartlessness, hebetude, impossibility, impossible, impossibleness, inappetence, inconceivability, indifference, insouciance, lack of appetite, languidness, lethargicalness, lethargy, listlessness, low spirits, lowness, lowness of spirit, malaise, no chance, nonchalance, not a prayer, numbness, oppression, oxymoron, paradox, passiveness, passivity, pessimism, phlegm, phlegmaticalness, phlegmaticness, plucklessness, resignation, resignedness, self-contradiction, self-destructive urge, sinking heart, sloth, sluggishness, sopor, soporifousness, spiritlessness, spunklessness, stupefaction, stupor, suicidal despair, supineness, taedium vitae, the impossible, torpidity, torpidness, torpor, unconcern, unimaginability, unthinkability, weariness of life, what cannot be, what cannot happen, withdrawnness

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  • hopelessness — index impasse, impossibility, peril, pessimism Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • hopelessness — despair, despondency, desperation, forlornness (see under DESPONDENT) Analogous words: dejection, depression, melancholy, gloom (see SADNESS) Antonyms: hopefulness Contrasted words: optimism (see corresponding adjective at HOPEFUL): *confidence,… …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • Hopelessness — (Roget s Thesaurus) >Absence, want or loss of hope. < N PARAG:Hopelessness >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 hopelessness hopelessness &c. >Adj. Sgm: N 1 despair despair desperation Sgm: N 1 despondency despondency &c.(dejection) 837 Sgm: N 1… …   English dictionary for students

  • hopelessness — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Lack of hope Nouns 1. hopelessness, futility, impossibility; despair, desperation; despondency, dejection; pessimism, Weltschmerz; hope deferred, dashed hopes; vain expectation, disappointment. Slang,… …   English dictionary for students

  • hopelessness — hopeless ► ADJECTIVE 1) feeling or causing despair. 2) inadequate; incompetent. DERIVATIVES hopelessly adverb hopelessness noun …   English terms dictionary

  • Hopelessness — Hopeless Hope less, a. 1. Destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing. [1913 Webster] I am a woman, friendless, hopeless. Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. Giving no ground of hope; promising nothing desirable; desperate; as, a hopeless… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • hopelessness — noun see hopeless …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • hopelessness — See hopeless. * * * …   Universalium

  • hopelessness — noun the lack of hope; despair …   Wiktionary

  • hopelessness — hope·less·ness || həʊplɪsnɪs n. lack of hope, despair …   English contemporary dictionary

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