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| Main Entry: | hopeless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | futile, pessimistic |
| Synonyms: | bad, cynical, dejected, demoralized, despairing, desperate, despondent, disconsolate, discouraging, downhearted, fatal, forlorn, gone*, helpless, ill-fated, impossible, impracticable, incurable, irreparable, irrevocable, lost, menacing, pointless, sad, sinister, threatening, tragic, unavailing, unfortunate, useless, vain, woebegone, beyond recall, goner, in despair, irredeemable, irreversible, no-win, past hope, shot down, sunk, unachievable, unmitigable, up the creek, worsening |
| Antonyms: | auspicious, bright, encouraging, expectant, hopeful, optimistic, promising, propitious, rosy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | depressing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | discouraging, upsetting |
| Synonyms: | black, bleak, dismal, distressing, dreary, funereal, gloomy, heartbreaking, hopeless, joyless, melancholy, mournful, oppressive, sad, somber, daunting, dejecting, disheartening, dispiriting, melancholic, saddening |
| Antonyms: | cheering, encouraging, happy |
| Main Entry: | despairing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | upset, despondent |
| Synonyms: | anxious, at end of one's rope, blue, brokenhearted, can't win, cynical, dejected, depressed, desperate, disconsolate, downcast, forlorn, frantic, grief-stricken, hopeless, in pain, in the dumps, in the pits, in the soup, inconsolable, melancholic, melancholy, miserable, no-win, not a prayer, oppressed, pessimistic, sad, shot down, strabilious, suicidal, sunk, weighed down, wretched |
| Antonyms: | confident, encouraged, expectant, hopeful |
| Main Entry: | despondent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | depressed |
| Synonyms: | blue*, dejected, despairing, disconsolate, discouraged, dispirited, doleful, down, downcast, downhearted, forlorn, gloomy, glum, hopeless, low, low-spirited, melancholy, miserable, morose, mourning, sad, sorrowful, woebegone, wretched, all torn up, bummed-out, cast-down, disheartened, griefstricken, grieving, in a blue funk, in despair, in the pits, shot down |
| Antonyms: | cheerful, elated, happy, hopeful, spirited, up |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | disappointed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | let down, saddened |
| Synonyms: | aghast, beaten, complaining, crestfallen, defeated, depressed, despondent, disconcerted, discontented, discouraged, disenchanted, disgruntled, disillusioned, dissatisfied, distressed, down, downcast, downhearted, frustrated, hopeless, unhappy, unsatisfied, upset, balked, chapfallen, down in the dumps, foiled, objecting, shot down, taken down, thwarted, vanquished, worsted |
| Antonyms: | delighted, excited, happy, pleased, satisfied |
| Main Entry: | disconsolate |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | depressed, unhappy |
| Synonyms: | bad, black, blue, cheerless, cold, crestfallen, dark, dejected, desolate, despairing, destroyed, dispirited, distressed, doleful, down, downcast, downhearted, dreary, forlorn, gloomy, grief-stricken, heartbroken, hopeless, inconsolable, low, melancholy, miserable, sad, somber, sorrowful, woebegone, woeful, wretched, comfortless, crushed, hurting, in pain, in the pits, ripped, torn-up |
| Antonyms: | cheerful, happy, consoled, solaced, soothed |
| Main Entry: | dismal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bleak, dreary, gloomy |
| Synonyms: | black, boring, cheerless, cloudy, dark, depressed, depressing, desolate, despondent, dim, dingy, disagreeable, discouraging, doleful, dolorous, dull, forlorn, frowning, funereal, ghastly, gruesome, hopeless, horrible, inauspicious, joyless, lonesome, lowering, lugubrious, melancholy, miserable, monotonous, morbid, murky, oppressive, overcast, sad, shadowy, somber, sorrowful, tedious, tenebrous, troublesome, unfortunate, unhappy, afflictive, disheartening, dispiriting, horrid, in the pits |
| Antonyms: | bright, cheerful, glad, happy, hopeful, light, pleasant |
| Main Entry: | downbeat |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pessimistic |
| Synonyms: | cheerless, dejected, dispirited, gloomy, hopeless, negative, unhappy, defeatist, unhopeful |
| Notes: | an emphasized beat is the downbeat and unemphasized beat is upbeat |
| Main Entry: | feckless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | without purpose |
| Synonyms: | aimless, carefree, careless, feeble, fustian, futile, good-for-nothing*, hopeless, incautious, incompetent, ineffective, ineffectual, irresponsible, meaningless, reckless, shiftless, useless, weak, wild, worthless, uncareful |
| Antonyms: | competent, effective, effectual, efficient, purposeful, responsible, strong, useful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | incurable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unfixable, unchangeable |
| Synonyms: | deadly, fatal, hopeless, impossible, irreparable, serious, terminal, cureless, immedicable, inoperable, irrecoverable, irremediable, nowhere to go, out of time, remediless, uncorrectable, unrecoverable |
| Antonyms: | curable, operable, healable, medicable |
| Main Entry: | insurmountable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | impossible |
| Synonyms: | hopeless, impassable, impregnable, inaccessible, indomitable, ineluctable, insuperable, invincible, overwhelming, unbeatable, unconquerable, forget it, no way, no-win, not a prayer, unmasterable |
| Antonyms: | attainable, possible, surmountable, beatable, defeatable |
| Main Entry: | irreparable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unable to be fixed |
| Synonyms: | broken, destroyed, hopeless, impossible, incorrigible, incurable, ruined, beyond repair, cureless, irrecoverable, irredeemable, irremediable, irremedial, irreplaceable, irretrievable, irreversible, uncorrectable, unrecoverable |
| Antonyms: | reparable, fixable, mendable, repairable |
| Main Entry: | pessimistic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | expecting bad outcome |
| Synonyms: | bleak, cynical, dark, dejected, depressed, despairing, despondent, discouraged, distrustful, downhearted, foreboding, gloomy, glum, hopeless, melancholy, misanthropic, morbid, morose, resigned, sad, sullen, troubled, worried, fatalistic |
| Antonyms: | confident, optimistic, trusting |
| Main Entry: | reckless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | irresponsible in thought, deed |
| Synonyms: | adventurous, any which way, audacious, brash, breakneck, carefree, careless, daredevil, daring, desperate, devil-may-care*, fast and loose, feckless, foolhardy, harebrained, hasty, headlong, heedless, helter-skelter, hopeless, hotheaded*, ill-advised, imprudent, inattentive, incautious, inconsiderate, indiscreet, madcap, mindless, negligent, precipitate, rash, regardless, temerarious, thoughtless, venturesome, wild, adventuresome, kooky, overventuresome, playing with fire, uncareful, venturous |
| Antonyms: | careful, cautious, responsible, wary |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | saturnine |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | gloomy |
| Synonyms: | blue*, cheerless, dejected, depressed, desolate, despondent, dispirited, dour, down, forlorn, glum, grave, hopeless, low, melancholy, miserable, morose, sad, solemn, sorrowful, sulky, sullen, unhappy, woebegone, woeful, down in the dumps, in low spirits, in the dumps, moping |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | unfortunate |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unlucky, bad |
| Synonyms: | adverse, afflicted, broken, burdened, calamitous, cursed, damaging, deplorable, desperate, destitute, disastrous, doomed, forsaken, hapless, hopeless, ill-fated, inappropriate, inopportune, lamentable, luckless, pained, poor, regrettable, ruined, ruinous, star-crossed*, stricken, troubled, unbecoming, unfavorable, unhappy, unpropitious, unsuccessful, unsuitable, untoward, wretched, ill-starred, in a bad way, infelicitous, jinxed, out of luck, shattered, unprosperous |
| Antonyms: | fortunate, good, happy, lucky, timely |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | useless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not working; not valuable |
| Synonyms: | abortive, bootless, disadvantageous, dysfunctional, expendable, feckless, fruitless, futile, good-for-nothing*, hopeless, idle, impracticable, impractical, incompetent, ineffective, ineffectual, inept, inoperative, meaningless, pointless, purposeless, scrap, stupid*, unavailable, unavailing, unproductive, unprofitable, vain, valueless, waste, weak, worthless, counterproductive, inutile, no good, nonfunctional, of no use, profitless, unfunctional, unpurposed, unusuable, unworkable |
| Antonyms: | helpful, usable, useful, valuable, working, worthwhile |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | wistful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | daydreaming, longing |
| Synonyms: | contemplative, desirous, disconsolate, dreaming, dreamy, forlorn, hopeless, meditative, melancholy, mournful, musing, nostalgic, pensive, plaintive, reflective, sad, thoughtful, wishful, yearning |
| Antonyms: | uncaring |
| Main Entry: | woeful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | terrible, sad |
| Synonyms: | afflicted, appalling, awful, bad, calamitous, cruel, deplorable, disappointing, disastrous, disconsolate, disgraceful, distressing, doleful, dreadful, feeble, gloomy, grievous, grim, heartbreaking, heartrending, heartsick, hopeless, inadequate, lamentable, lousy*, mean, miserable, mournful, paltry, pathetic, piteous, pitiful, plaintive, poor, rotten, shocking, sorrowful, sorry, tragic, unfortunate, unhappy, wretched, agonized, anguished, catastrophic, grieving, pitiable, racked, tortured |
| Antonyms: | glad, happy, joyful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | wretched |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | terrible, very bad |
| Synonyms: | abject, afflicted, base, calamitous, cheap, contemptible, dejected, deplorable, depressed, despicable, disconsolate, distressed, dolorous, down, down-and-out*, downcast, faulty, flimsy, forlorn, gloomy, hapless, hopeless, inferior, low, mean, melancholy, miserable, paltry, pathetic, pitiful, poor, shabby, shameful, sordid, sorrowful, sorry, spiritless, tragic, unfortunate, unhappy, vile, weak, woebegone, woeful, worthless, bummed, hurting, in the pits, low-down*, pitiable |
| Antonyms: | good, nice |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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