adjective
1.
Synonyms: despondent , despairing, desperate, desponding, forlorn
Related Word: gloomy, glum, morose
Contrasted words: cheerful; assured, confident, optimistic, sanguine, sure
Antonyms: hopeful
2.
offering no prospect of change for the better
his case was hopeless and beyond all human aid
Synonyms: cureless, immedicable, impossible, incurable, insanable, irremediable, irreparable, uncorrectable, uncurable, unrecoverable
Related Word: insoluble; incorrigible, irredeemable
Idioms: beyond hope ( or remedy or repair), beyond human aid
Contrasted words: correctable, curable, medicable, remediable, reparable
Antonyms: hopeful