unhopeful

unhopeful
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  • unhopeful — adj.; unhopefully, adv. * * * …   Universalium

  • unhopeful — adj. abject, hopeless, having no hope …   English contemporary dictionary

  • unhopeful — un·hopeful …   English syllables

  • unhopeful — /ʌnˈhoʊpfəl/ (say un hohpfuhl) adjective not hopeful. –unhopefully, adverb …  

  • unhopeful — adjective showing utter resignation or hopelessness abject surrender • Syn: ↑abject • Similar to: ↑hopeless …   Useful english dictionary

  • despond — de*spond , v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Desponded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Desponding}.] [L. despond[=e]re, desponsum, to promise away, promise in marriage, give up, to lose (courage); de + spond[=e]re to promise solemnly. See {Sponsor}.] To give up the will,… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Desponded — despond de*spond , v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Desponded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Desponding}.] [L. despond[=e]re, desponsum, to promise away, promise in marriage, give up, to lose (courage); de + spond[=e]re to promise solemnly. See {Sponsor}.] To give up… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Desponding — despond de*spond , v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Desponded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Desponding}.] [L. despond[=e]re, desponsum, to promise away, promise in marriage, give up, to lose (courage); de + spond[=e]re to promise solemnly. See {Sponsor}.] To give up… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • despondent — I adjective aggrieved, beaten, defeated, defeatist, dejected, depressed, desolate, despairing, disconsolate, dismal, dispirited, dolorous, downcast, dreary, gloomy, hopeless, in despair, inconsolable, joyless, listless, lugubrious, melancholic,… …   Law dictionary

  • apathetic — Synonyms and related words: Laodicean, Olympian, abeyant, affording no hope, aloof, anesthetic, ataractic, backward, balking, balky, benumbed, blah, blase, bleak, bored, callous, careless, casual, cataleptic, catatonic, centrist, cheerless,… …   Moby Thesaurus

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