| 单词 | hopeless |
| 释义 | hopeless (once / 214 pages) adj Someone who's hopeless believes that nothing good can happen — a happy ending seems impossible. If you realize there's no way you'll pass your biology class, it's a hopeless situation. When you're struggling to learn a new language or tackling a difficult task and feeling utterly discouraged, you can say that you're hopeless. In other words, you have no hope that things will work out the way you wish they would. A plan that's doomed to failure is also hopeless, because there's no chance that it'll be successful: "His scheme to save enough money to backpack through Europe is hopeless, because he still hasn't found a job." WORD FAMILYhopeless: hopelesser, hopelessly, hopelessness+/hope: hoped, hopeful, hopeless, hoper, hopes, hoping/hoped: unhoped/hopeful: hopefully, hopefulness, hopefuls, unhopeful/hopelessness: hopelessnesss/hoper: hopers/unhoped: unhopedly/unhopeful: unhopefully USAGE EXAMPLESShe won a huge settlement against the government in 2009 in a case that other people saw as hopeless. Seattle Times(Jan 02, 2017) All this does not mean that modest weight loss is hopeless, experts say. New York Times(May 02, 2016) The entire history of professional sports indicated that their situation was hopeless. The Guardian(Dec 30, 2016) 1adj 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 Syn|Ant discouraging depriving of confidence or hope or enthusiasm and hence often deterring action abject, unhopefulshowing utter resignation or hopelessness black, bleak, dimoffering little or no hope despairing, desperatearising from or marked by despair or loss of hope despondent, heartsickwithout or almost without hope forlornmarked by or showing hopelessness futurelesshaving no prospect or hope of a future helpless, lostunable to function; without help insolublewithout hope of solution pessimisticexpecting the worst possible outcome impossiblenot capable of occurring or being accomplished or dealt with hopeful having or manifesting hope encouraginggiving courage or confidence or hope anticipant, anticipative, expectantmarked by eager anticipation optimisticexpecting the best in this best of all possible worlds 2adj certain to fail the situation is hopeless Syn impossible not capable of occurring or being accomplished or dealt with 3adj of a person unable to do something skillfully I'm hopeless at mathematics Syn unskilled not having or showing or requiring special skill or proficiency 4adj (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 Syn bad having undesirable or negative qualities |
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