Word Finder - hopeless

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Without hope; despairing; not expecting anything positive.

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Giving no ground of hope; promising nothing desirable; desperate.

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a hopeless cause

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Without talent, not skilled

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He's a hopeless writer, but can draw very well.

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(of an adverse condition) Incurable.

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He is a hopeless idler.

I feel so hopeless when I can't help her.

This is a hopeless assembly.

The attendant made a hopeless gesture.

The lifeless, hopeless look in her gaze was too genuine for even a woman as powerful as she was to manipulate.

He seemed so hopeless.

The Democratic party nominated the one available Democrat who had the smallest chance of beating him - Horatio Seymour, lately governor of New York, an excellent statesman, but at that time hopeless as a candidate because of his attitude during the war.

But the dissensions of the native Franks and the crusaders made it hopeless to continue the struggle; and Richard was alarmed by the news which reached him of John's intrigues in England and Normandy.

It not only made the efforts of the Turks to suppress the Greek revolt hopeless, but it made a breach difficult to heal in the traditional friendship between Great Britain and Turkey, which had its effect during the critical period of the struggle between Mehemet Ali and the Porte (1831-1841).

By 1527 the king had become hopeless of having a male heir by Catherine.

Here the close and solitary confinement, and the dreary and hopeless inactivity to which he was condemned, proved a terrible punishment for the full-blooded, energetic and masterful Bothwell.

From this point downward, and to some extent above this as far as Samawa, the river forms a succession of reedy lagoons of the most hopeless character, the Paludes Chaldaici of antiquity, el Batihat of the Arabs.

All hope seemed lost, when by a brilliant feat of arms John Sobieski, king of Poland, drove away the besiegers in hopeless confusion and saved the cause of Christianity, 1683.

A hopeless political confusion ensued.

The Sidonian king Tennes considered resistance hopeless, and betrayed the town to the Persian king, assisted by Mentor, who had been sent with Greek troops from Egypt to defend the town.

Nevertheless, its army, thoroughly reorganized by Dumouriez, gallantly maintained the hopeless struggle for some years, and it was not till 1776 that the last traces of it disappeared.

It's a pretty hopeless place to take a reader.

Without finishing what he had begun to say he made a hopeless movement with his arm and went away.

But the economic and financial situation was one of almost hopeless embarrassment and confusion, and Pellegrini proved himself incapable of grappling with it.

But his followers deserted, and his condition appeared hopeless.

The overthrow of the monarchy on the 10th of August and the September massacres rendered hopeless all attempts at an entente cordiale between the two peoples; and the provocative actions of Chauvelin, undertaken in order to curry favour with the extremists now in power at Paris, undid all the good accomplished by the tact and moderation of Talleyrand.

Although the government of which he thus became a member held office for only ten months, being placed in a hopeless minority on making an appeal to the country, Macdonald from this time forward took a position of constantly increasing weight in his party.

Attempts to derive the anacromyodian and the katacromyodian from the diacromyodian condition are easy on paper, but quite hopeless when hampered by the knowledge of anatomical facts and how to use them.

The present outlook was hopeless, but in the enlarged horizon of time as well as space the thoughts of some of the most spiritual minds in Judaism were directed to the transcendent and ultimate.

In this hopeless state of affairs a false report reached Emmet at one of his depots at nine o'clock in the evening that the military were approaching.

After the invasion had been crowned with success, Montrose still continued to cherish his now hopeless policy.

Hopeless of the attempt he resigned his commission and embarked for Kingston, Jamaica, in May 1814.

On the other hand, if we refuse to accept this identification, and hold that the beast from the abyss is yet to come, any attempt at a strict exegesis of the text plunges us in hopeless difficulties.

The war, hopeless from the first, continued for another six months, marked only by unavailing efforts in Tripoli by Enver Bey - the well-known member of the Committee of Union and Progress - at the head of Arab irregulars.

He found that reconciliation was hopeless.

Anne felt hopeless, because her future was fated by her strict parents.

They feel hopeless and don't make plans for the future because they don't want to live much longer and some people believe they won't.

You may feel sad, hopeless, helpless and have feelings of guilt.

The utter exhaustion of his people in the course of a hopeless struggle with Holland, France and England was seen by him with sympathy, but he considered it an unavoidable misfortune and not the result of his own errors, since he could not be expected to renounce his rights or to desert the cause of God and the Church.

The apparently hopeless outlook for corn-growing compelled farmers to cast about for some other means of subsistence, and to rely more than they had hitherto done upon the possibilities of stock-breeding.

The position of the government was hopeless, and without waiting for a division Taaffe resigned.

Such were Ingimund the Old, Geirmund Hellskin, Thord Beardie (who had wed St Edmund's granddaughter,) Audun Shackle, Bryniulf the Old, Uni, to whom Harold promised the earldom of the new land if he could make the settlers acknowledge him as king (a hopeless project), and others by whom the north-west, north and east were almost completely " claimed."

After the battle of Hastings Aldred joined the party who sought to bestow the throne upon Edgar the IEtheling, but when these efforts appeared hopeless he was among those who submitted to William the Conqueror at Berkhampstead.

She makes many mistakes, of course, twists words and phrases, puts the cart before the horse, and gets herself into hopeless tangles of nouns and verbs; but so does the hearing child.

Either being endlessly reborn to make the same hopeless mistakes?

And Bob Mills and Jeff Pope have written a comedy drama starring John Thomson about a hopeless spiv called Stan The Man.

With Barnardo 's help, childhood trauma need not mean a hopeless future.

Matteo 3 - this guy is hopeless Radebe 6 - Easy peasy Rio 8 - Tried to get things going.

Rather than waiting until the house is hopeless to clean, small housekeeping tasks incorporated into a daily routine eliminate the need for marathon cleaning sessions.

You're not the only one; many people feel hopeless in getting their anger under control or have seen others go through anger management programs without success.

A dot to indicate the questions you think you know, but aren't sure, and a question mark to show the ones you feel are hopeless.

Though you may feel as though your situation is hopeless, treatment for addiction is available.

This makes a teen feel hopeless that he or she will never be able to feel better about life, leading to thoughts of suicide.

Nuttalli, C. macrocarpus, and C. flexuosus are subject to it to such an extent as to make their successful culture very near hopeless unless some cure can be found for this mildew.

Black often is an indication of depression or feeling hopeless or restricted.

People with spinal cord injuries caused by traumatic events have in the past been considered hopeless cases destined to a life of paralysis.