Hopeless synonyms

66 synonyms for hopeless such as appalling, beyond hope, a dead loss, and abysmal. Hopeless is an adjective, and its antonyms are optimistic, remediable, curable, and hopeful.

Another word for hopeless

1. despairing

Beyond hope, beyond recovery, beyond remedy, beyond repair, bootless, deadly, defeatist, dejected, demoralized, despaired of, despairing, desperate, despondent, disconsolate, downcast, downhearted, fatal, forlorn, futile, grave, impossible, impracticable, in despair, incorrigible, incurable, irremediable, irreparable, irreversible, lost, negative, no-win, parlous, past cure, pessimistic, pointless, resigned, unworkable, useless, vain, with no chance of success, without hope, woebegone, and wretched.

2. awful

A dead loss, a load of pants, abysmal, appalling, atrocious, awful, dire, dreadful, duff, frightful, inadequate, incompetent, ineffective, inferior, lousy, pathetic, rotten, rubbish, terrible, useless, very bad, and very poor.

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