adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
as
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The situation is not as hopeless as it might seem.
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Einstein would probably have been as hopeless as anybody in working out how to catch a woolly rhinoceros.
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Pickles is as hopeless as ever!
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They portrayed the family as hopeless , without possibility of improvement, and wanted the children kept in care.
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Surprisingly, this task may not be as hopeless as it seems.
so
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When she looked at poor little Hoomey, she was filled with pity for him being so hopeless .
■ NOUN
case
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If Lee didn't know if his Dad was his Dad or not, he must be a hopeless case .
situation
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Although you are in a seemingly hopeless situation , keep thinking and get your priorities right.
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It kept me occupied in otherwise hopeless situations .
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The hour of acute awareness was running out into the usual hopeless analysis of a hopeless situation , the usual emotional slush.
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For a writer it's a hopeless situation .
task
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It was a hopeless task to identify David among so many people.
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It was a hopeless task , we were slowly sinking in the mire.
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Nevertheless, he set about the seemingly hopeless task of making a bankrupt Command a going concern.
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Then he turned and began the hopeless task of chasing his shoe as it flew back and to above his head.
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A few have become internationally known, but it often seems a hopeless task .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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""Please let me go to the party'' Ali begged her mother, but she knew it was hopeless .
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"I do not believe that working to block the movement of cocaine into the US is a hopeless cause," McCaffrey told the panel.
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Although Helga's condition appeared hopeless , her husband refused to give up.
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Doug was hopeless at waiting tables.
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I had this hopeless feeling as I approached the hospital.
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It's hopeless to try to persuade him while he's in this mood. Let's talk to him tomorrow.
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Police now face the hopeless task of trying to find the bombers.
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Remember, it's just when things look hopeless that you sometimes get a lucky break.
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The firemen tried to stop the flames from spreading, but it was hopeless .
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The lawyers must have known their lawsuit was hopeless .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A hopeless slave like the best of them.
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I pore over the hopeless , resigned faces, the emaciated bodies, the stick-like limbs.
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It is difficult to trace the exact moment at which he decided that the military situation was hopeless .
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Many of us ignore government, assuming that we are too busy to waste our time on such a hopeless cause.
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The first telephoned his employer saying that it was hopeless , because no one wore shoes!
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What had she thought, that their purpose led to another hopeless middle-class trap.
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Why hadn't she realized how hopeless she had become, how she had forgotten everything during those months of pregnancy?