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单词 hopeless
释义 hope·less
\ˈhōplə̇s\ adjective
1.
 a.
  (1) : devoid of hope : having no expectation of good : despairing
   < girls feel hopeless if they haven't a marriage at least in sight — Sidonie M. Gruenberg >
   < three lonely and hopeless old women — Upton Sinclair >
   < was never hopeless of anybody — Margaret Deland >
  (2) : reflecting or indicating lack of hope
   < gazed with lusterless, hopeless eyes — Jack London >
 b. : not susceptible of remedy or cure : incurable
  < should be aware of his responsibility if he declares a … patient hopelessJournal American Medical Association >
 c. : being beyond redemption : offering no prospect of change or improvement
  < the dream of every magazine writer who is not a hopeless hack — Raymond Chandler >
  < as an actor he is really hopeless >
  < a hopeless extrovert, giving herself completely and trustingly to everyone — Holiday >
  < a hopeless Anglophile — Richard Joseph >
2.
 a. : giving no ground for hope : promising nothing desirable : desperate
  < the situation looked hopeless indeed — C.B.Nordhoff & J.N.Hall >
 b. : incapable of solution, management, or accomplishment : impossible, insoluble
  < a hopeless task >
  < had a hopeless jumble of papers on my hands — Phoenix Flame >
  < the detective … whose redemption is hopeless — B.N.Cardozo >
  < worked at depths that seemed hopeless fifty years ago — Waldemar Kaempffert >
  < in hopeless conflict with religion — R.W.Murray >
  < lucidity hopeless to find amid all the cluttering detail of advanced works — Geographical Journal >
Synonyms: see despondent
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