| Main Entry: | desperate |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hopeless |
Synonyms: |
at end of one's rope, back to the wall, can't win, dead duck, despairing, despondent, desponding, downcast, forlorn, futile, gone*, goner, hard up, in the soup, in the toilet, inconsolable, irrecoverable, irremediable, irretrievable, no-chance, no-way, no-win, running out of time, sad, sunk, up against it, up the creek, useless, vain, wretched |
Antonyms: |
hopeful |
| 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: | irrevocable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fixed, unchangeable |
Synonyms: |
certain, changeless, constant, doomed, established, fated, final, immutable, indelible, inevitable, invariable, irremediable, irretrievable, irreversible, lost, permanent, predestined, predetermined, settled, unalterable, unrepealable, unreversible |
Antonyms: |
alterable, changeable, reversible, revocable |
| Main Entry: | lost |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | missing, off-track |
Synonyms: |
absent, adrift, astray, at sea, cast away, disappeared, disoriented, down the drain, fallen between cracks, forfeit, forfeited, gone, gone astray, hidden, invisible, irrecoverable, irretrievable, irrevocable, kiss goodbye, lacking, minus, mislaid, misplaced, missed, nowhere to be found, obscured, off-course, out the window, strayed, unredeemed, vanished, wandering, wayward, without |
Antonyms: |
accomplishing, found, successful, winning |
| Main Entry: | irreversible |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | irrevocable |
Synonyms: |
beyond recall, certain, changeless, constant, doomed, established, fated, final, immutable, indelible, inevitable, invariable, irremediable, irretrievable, lost, permanent, predestined, predetermined, settled, unalterable, unrepealable, unreversible |