Hopelessness

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Hopeless \Hope"less\, a.
     1. Destitute of hope; having no expectation of good;
        despairing.
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              I am a woman, friendless, hopeless.   --Shak.


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     2. Giving no ground of hope; promising nothing desirable;
        desperate; as, a hopeless cause.
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              The hopelessword of "never to return"
              Breathe I against thee, upon pain of life. --Shak.
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     3. Unhoped for; despaired of. [Obs.] --Marston. --
        {Hope"less*ly}, adv. -- {Hope"less*ness}, n.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  hopelessness
       n : the despair you feel when you have abandoned hope of comfort
           or success [ant: {hopefulness}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  91 Moby Thesaurus words for "hopelessness":
     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