English-Thai Dictionary

hopeless

ADJ ซึ่ง สิ้นหวัง  ซึ่ง หมดหวัง  ซึ่ง ไม่ มีหวัง  forlorn hopeful sueng-sin-wang

 

hopelessness

N ความหมดหวัง  ความสิ้นหวัง  ความท้อถอย  despair forlornness hopefulness kwam-mod-wang

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

HOPELESS

a.Destitute of hope; having no expectation of that which is desirable; despairing. I am a woman, friendless, hopeless.
1. Giving no ground of hope or expectation of good; promising nothing desirable; desperate; as a hopeless condition.

 

HOPELESSLY

adv. Without hope.

 

HOPELESSNESS

n.A state of being desperate, or affording no hope.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

HOPELESS

HOPELESS Hope "less, a.

 

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

 

2. 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. Shak.

 

3. Unhoped for; despaired of. [Obs. ] Marston. -- Hope "less *ly, adv. -- Hope "less *ness, n.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

hopeless

hope less |ˈhōplis ˈhoʊpləs | ▶adjective 1 feeling or causing despair about something: his situation was obviously hopeless | Jessica looked at him in mute hopeless appeal. 2 inadequate; incompetent: I'm hopeless at names. DERIVATIVES hope less ness noun

 

hopelessly

hope less ly |ˈhōplisli | ▶adverb 1 in a way that shows or causes despair: she sighed hopelessly. 2 [ as submodifier ] used to emphasize that a situation is beyond hope of improvement; irredeemably: before long, he was hopelessly lost. she is hopelessly in love with him.

 

Oxford Dictionary

hopeless

hope |less |ˈhəʊplɪs | ▶adjective 1 feeling or causing despair: Jess looked at him in mute hopeless appeal. 2 chiefly Brit. very bad or incompetent: I'm hopeless at names. DERIVATIVES hopelessness noun

 

hopelessly

hope |less ¦ly |ˈhəʊpləsli | ▶adverb 1 in a way that shows or causes despair: she sighed hopelessly. 2 [ as submodifier ] used to emphasize that a situation is beyond hope of improvement; irredeemably: before long, he was hopelessly lost. she is hopelessly in love with him.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

hopeless

hopeless adjective 1 she felt weary and hopeless: despairing, desperate, wretched, forlorn, pessimistic, defeatist, resigned; dejected, downhearted, despondent, demoralized; archaic woebegone. 2 a hopeless case: irremediable, beyond hope, lost, beyond repair, irreparable, irreversible; helpless, incurable; impossible, no-win, unwinnable, futile, unworkable, impracticable, useless; archaic bootless. 3 Joseph was hopeless at tennis: bad, awful, terrible, dreadful, horrible, atrocious; inferior, incompetent, inadequate, unskilled; informal pathetic, useless, lousy, rotten. 4 a hopeless romantic: incurable, incorrigible, chronic, compulsive; complete, utter, absolute, total, out-and-out; inveterate, confirmed, established, dyed-in-the-wool.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

hopeless

hopeless adjective 1 Jess looked at him in mute hopeless appeal: despairing, without hope, in despair, desperate, dejected, downhearted, despondent, demoralized, disconsolate, downcast, wretched, woebegone, forlorn, negative, pessimistic, defeatist, resigned. ANTONYMS optimistic. 2 she gave up on him as a hopeless case: irremediable, beyond hope, lost, beyond remedy, beyond repair, beyond recovery, irreparable, irreversible, incorrigible, despaired of; past cure, incurable, grave, fatal, deadly. ANTONYMS remediable; curable. 3 although the situation was hopeless, they sent in more troops: impossible, beyond hope, with no chance of success, useless, no-win, futile, unworkable, impracticable, forlorn, pointless, vain; archaic bootless, parlous. ANTONYMS hopeful. 4 Joseph was hopeless at school: very bad, very poor, awful, terrible, dreadful, appalling, frightful, atrocious, inferior, incompetent, inadequate, ineffective; informal pathetic, useless, lousy, rotten, a dead loss, abysmal, dire; Brit. informal duff, rubbish, a load of pants, unable to do something for toffee, unable to do something to save one's life. ANTONYMS accomplished.

 

hopelessly

hopelessly adverb 1 she began to cry hopelessly: despairingly, without hope, in despair, in anguish, in distress, desperately, dejectedly, downheartedly, despondently, disconsolately, wretchedly, miserably, forlornly, resignedly, pessimistically. ANTONYMS optimistically. 2 she was hopelessly confused and lost: utterly, completely, irretrievably, impossibly; extremely, very, desperately, totally, awfully, terribly, tremendously, frightfully, dreadfully; informal chronically. ANTONYMS slightly.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

hopeless

hope less /hóʊpləs /→hope 形容詞 more ～; most ～1 〈状況などが 〉絶望的な , 改善の見込みがない , どうにもならない ▸ a hopeless situation 絶望的な状態 ▸ She knew that it was hopeless to try [trying ] to finish her essay .彼女はエッセイを完成させようとするのはとうてい不可能だとわかっていた ▸ a hopeless case ｟しばしばおどけて ｠だめな人間 2 ｟英 くだけて ｠〈人が 〉 «…が » まったくだめな «at, with » ; 〈物 事が 〉ひどい ▸ She is hopeless at cooking [with machinery ].彼女は料理がてんでだめだ [機械おんちだ ]3 〈人が 〉望みを持たない , 絶望して ▸ He felt hopeless about his job .彼は自分の仕事に望みを失っていた

 

hopelessly

h ó pe less ly 副詞 絶望的 (なほど )に, どうしようもなく ▸ be hopelessly in love (with A )(A 〈人 〉を )どうしようもないほど好きになっている .

 

hopelessness

h ó pe less ness 名詞 U 絶望 ; どうしようもないこと .