hopelessness

Roget category 859

6. Words relating to the sentient and moral
› 6.2. Personal affections
›› 6.2.3. Prospective affections

#859. [Absence, want or loss of hope.] Hopelessness

noun

hopelessness etc. adj. — despair, desperation — despondency, depression etc. (dejection) 837 — pessimism, pessimist — Job's comforter — bird of bad omen, bird of ill omen.
abandonment, desolation — resignation, surrender, submission etc. 725.
hope deferred, dashed hopes — vain expectation etc. (disappointment) 509.
airy hopes etc. etc. 858 — forlorn hope — gone case, dead duck, gone coon [U.S.] — goner [Slang] — bad job, bad business — enfant perdu [Fr.] — gloomy horizon, black spots in the horizon — slough of Despond, cave of Despair — immedicabile vulnus [Lat.].

verb

despair — lose all hope, give up all hope, abandon all hope, relinquish all hope, lose the hope of, give up the hope of, abandon the hope of, relinquish the hope of — give up, give over — yield to despair — falter — despond etc. (be dejected) 837 — jeter le manche apres la cognee [Fr.].
inspire despair, drive to despair etc. n. — disconcert — dash one's hopes, crush one's hopes, destroy one's hopes — hope against hope.
abandon — resign, surrender, submit etc. 725.

adjective

hopeless, desperate, despairing, gone, in despair, au desespoir [Fr.], forlorn, desolate — inconsolable etc. (dejected) 837 — broken hearted.
unpromising, unpropitious — inauspicious, ill-omened, threatening, clouded over.
out of the question, not to be thought of — impracticable etc. 471 — past hope, past cure, past mending, past recall — at one's last gasp etc. (death) 360 — given up, given over.
incurable, cureless, immedicable, remediless, beyond remedy — incorrigible — irreparable, irremediable, irrecoverable, irreversible, irretrievable, irreclaimable, irredeemable, irrevocable — ruined, undone — immitigable.

phrase

lasciate ogni speranza voi ch'entrate" [Dante]; its days are numbered — the worst come to the worst — no change, no pause, no hope, yet I endure" [Shelley]; O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon" [Milton]; mene mene tekel upharson" [Old Testament].

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