adj. Function: adjective
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Synonyms: DESPONDENT , despairing, desperate, desponding, forlorn
Related Words: gloomy, glum, morose
Contrasted Words: cheerful; assured, confident, optimistic, sanguine, sure
Antonyms: hopeful
2 offering no prospect of change for the better FF1C; his case was hopeless and beyond all human aid FF1E;
Synonyms: cureless, immedicable, impossible, incurable, insanable, irremediable, irreparable, uncorrectable, uncurable, unrecoverable
Related Words: insoluble; incorrigible, irredeemable
Idioms: beyond hope ( or remedy or repair), beyond human aid
Contrasted Words: correctable, curable, medicable, remediable, reparable
Antonyms: hopeful