Definition of Hopeless

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Definition of Hopeless
	Hopeless Destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing. Giving no ground of hope; promising nothing desirable; desperate; as, a hopeless cause. Unhoped for; despaired of. Related Definitions: As, Cause, Desirable, Despaired, Despairing, Desperate, Destitute, Expectation, For, Giving, Good, Ground, Having, Hope, Hopeless, No, Nothing, Of, Promising, Unhoped

Hopeless Quotations

Alas, I am a woman friendless, hopeless!
William Shakespeare

The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.
Albert Camus

To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

As another has well said, to handicap a student by teaching him that his black face is a curse and that his struggle to change his condition is hopeless is the worst sort of lynching.
Carter G. Woodson

God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it is hopeless.
Chester W. Nimitz

All my stories are about the action of grace on a character who is not very willing to support it, but most people think of these stories as hard, hopeless and brutal.
Flannery O'Connor

I'm hopeless with money; I simply spend what I've got.
Freddie Mercury

A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.
Elbert Hubbard

It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.
Emmet Fox

Hopeless Translations

hopeless in German is hoffnungslos, aussichtslos, hoffnungslos
hopeless in Italian is irrimediabilmente

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