unhopeful

I am all unhopeful, all unpeaceful, all a desperate Languor and a tragic Futileness: I am an unspeakably untoward thing.

I was weary and unhopeful, and so, perhaps, trod more safely the somewhat devious and perplexing path that lay before me.

"I will go and see," and I ran out again, still not unhopeful.

Hence, he was at no loss to account for the exile's flight afield, or for his unhopeful present attitude.

“The name sounds sort of unhopeful,” ventured Mr. Gubb timidly.