单词 | hopelessness |
释义 | hopelessnessn. Hopeless condition; want of hope, despair; state of being despaired of, desperateness. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > despair, hopelessness > desperate state or condition > [noun] desperationc1366 desperateness1667 hopelessness1808 lornness1866 the mind > mental capacity > expectation > despair, hopelessness > [noun] forlornnessc825 unhope?c1225 wanhope1297 speir13.. wantrokingc1350 mishopea1400 desperacy1629 Slough of Despond1776 hopelessness1853 unhopefulness1868 1808 H. More Cœlebs in Search of Wife II. xxvii. 64 That discouraging superiority, which others might be deterred from imitating, through hopelessness to reach. 1853 J. H. Newman Hist. Sketches (1873) II. i. i. 13 A message which well illustrates the hopelessness of going to war with them. 1880 ‘Ouida’ Moths Il. 287 The old heavy burden of hopelessness and apathy had fallen on her again. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online December 2018). < |
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