| Main Entry: | hopeless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | futile, pessimistic |
Synonyms: |
bad, beyond recall, cynical, dejected, demoralized, despairing, desperate, despondent, disconsolate, discouraging, downhearted, fatal, forlorn, gone*, goner, helpless, ill-fated, impossible, impracticable, in despair, incurable, irredeemable, irreparable, irreversible, irrevocable, lost, menacing, no-win, past hope, pointless, sad, shot down, sinister, sunk, threatening, tragic, unachievable, unavailing, unfortunate, unmitigable, up the creek, useless, vain, woebegone, worsening |
Antonyms: |
auspicious, bright, encouraging, expectant, hopeful, optimistic, promising, propitious, rosy |
| Main Entry: | incorrigible |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bad, hopeless |
Synonyms: |
abandoned, beastly, hardened, incurable, intractable, inveterate, irredeemable, irreparable, loser, recidivous, uncorrectable, unreformed, useless, wicked |
Antonyms: |
good, manageable, nice, obedient, reformable |
| Main Entry: | irreparable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unable to be fixed |
Synonyms: |
beyond repair, broken, cureless, destroyed, hopeless, impossible, incorrigible, incurable, irrecoverable, irredeemable, irremediable, irremedial, irreplaceable, irretrievable, irreversible, ruined, uncorrectable, unrecoverable |
Antonyms: |
fixable, mendable, repairable, reparable |
| Main Entry: | irremediable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hopeless |
Synonyms: |
bad, beyond recall, cureless, cynical, dejected, demoralized, despairing, desperate, despondent, disconsolate, discouraging, downhearted, fatal, forlorn, gone*, goner, helpless, ill-fated, impossible, impracticable, in despair, incurable, irredeemable, irreparable, irreversible, irrevocable, lost, menacing, no-win, past hope, pointless, sad, shot down, sinister, sunk, threatening, tragic, unachievable, unavailing, unfortunate, unmitigable, up the creek, useless, vain, woebegone, worsening |