Appalling, beyond hope, a dead loss, and abysmal are all synonyms for hopeless. Optimistic, remediable, curable, and hopeful are these antonyms of hopeless. And here are another 66 synonyms for hopeless.
Hopeless Synonyms
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
- Past cure
- Pessimistic
- Pointless
- Resigned
- Unworkable
- Useless
- Vain
- With no chance of success
- Without hope
- Woebegone
- Wretched
- Parlous
2. awful
- A dead loss
- Abysmal
- Appalling
- Atrocious
- Awful
- Dire
- Dreadful
- Duff
- Frightful
- Inadequate
- Incompetent
- Ineffective
- Inferior
- Lousy
- Pathetic
- Rotten
- Rubbish
- Terrible
- Useless
- Very bad
- Very poor
- A load of pants