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adjective

Hopeless adj.

Destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing. "I am a woman, friendless, hopeless."

Giving no ground of hope; promising nothing desirable; desperate; as, a hopeless cause. "The hopelessword of "never to return" Breathe I against thee, upon pain of life."

Unhoped for; despaired of. (Obs.)

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Etymology of 'Hopeless'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Hopeless" Quotes from Famous Books

... befallen you, where you have been, and how you fared, and by what miraculous chance you escaped the tempest. All our eyes were fixed on the boat when you laboured to reach the shore, and had you heard the groans we uttered when we saw you give up the effort as hopeless and fly away to sea before the wind you would have known how truly all your comrades love you. We gave you up as assuredly lost, for the islanders here agreed that you had no chance of weathering the gale, and that the boat would, ere ...

— In Freedom's Cause • G. A. Henty

... Farmer Jocelyn's sudden death was as though a cloud- burst had broken over the village, dealing utter and hopeless destruction. To the little community of simple workaday folk living round Briar Farm it was a greater catastrophe than the death of any king. Nothing else was talked of. Nothing was done. Men stood idly about, ...

— Innocent - Her Fancy and His Fact • Marie Corelli

... support his position that "no man is sensible to beauty in those objects with regard to which he has not previous ideas," by the remark that "the beauty of a theory, or of a relic of antiquity, is unintelligible to a peasant," we see at once that it is hopeless to argue with a man who, under his general term beauty, may, for anything we know, be sometimes speaking of mathematical demonstrability and sometimes of historical interest; while even if we could succeed in limiting the term to the sense ...

— Modern Painters Volume II (of V) • John Ruskin

... amount to?" he asked. "An overgrown schoolgirl, who did not half learn her lessons. Read that MSS. she left here, and get disillusionized in short order. Why, she doesn't even know how to spell, and her periods and commas are in a hopeless tangle." ...

— A Black Adonis • Linn Boyd Porter

... about the coast of Cornwall during the pilchard season, roll their bodies round so as to twine the line about them in its whole length, and often in such a way that Mr Yarrell has known a fisherman give up as hopeless ...

— Captain Mugford - Our Salt and Fresh Water Tutors • W.H.G. Kingston

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