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Adjective hopeless has 4 senses
- hopeless - without hope because there seems to be no possibility of comfort or success; "in an agony of hopeless grief"; "with a hopeless sigh he sat down"
Antonyms: hopeful, anticipant, anticipative, expectant, aspirant, aspiring, wishful, would-be
- hopeless - of a person unable to do something skillfully; "I'm hopeless at mathematics"
Antonym: skilled (indirect, via unskilled)
- hopeless - certain to fail; "the situation is hopeless"
Antonym: possible (indirect, via impossible)
- hopeless - (informal to emphasize how bad it is) beyond hope of management or reform; "she handed me a hopeless jumble of papers"; "he is a hopeless romantic"
Antonym: good (indirect, via bad)
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