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as in incurable
not capable of being cured or reformed
a hopeless optimist who looked for the good in everyone and everything was a hopeless romantic who never stopped looking for a soulmate
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as in cynical
emphasizing or expecting the worst
the poor woman was feeling hopeless about ever finding her lost cat
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as in impossible
incapable of being solved or accomplished
keeping this desk organized is hopeless
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as in desperate
feeling or showing no hope
the hopeless look on the faces of the fans as the other team scored again
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Recent Examples of hopeless
Gein’s sickness is singular and curable, but ours, as a society, is out of control and hopeless?
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Ben Travers, IndieWire, 4 Oct. 2025
The bubble-ists think that the Coreweave people are hopeless dreamers at best and shysters at worst.
—Jim Cramer, CNBC, 28 Sep. 2025
Since then, the song has been yearned for by hopeless romantics on TikTok, with videos featuring the song racking up millions of views, similar to the ones Iris posted herself.
—Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 27 Sep. 2025
Claressa Shields is a three-division world champion boxer and also a hopeless romantic.
—Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 25 Sep. 2025
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Ben Travers, IndieWire, 4 Oct. 2025
The bubble-ists think that the Coreweave people are hopeless dreamers at best and shysters at worst.
—Jim Cramer, CNBC, 28 Sep. 2025
Since then, the song has been yearned for by hopeless romantics on TikTok, with videos featuring the song racking up millions of views, similar to the ones Iris posted herself.
—Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 27 Sep. 2025
Claressa Shields is a three-division world champion boxer and also a hopeless romantic.
—Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 25 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hopeless
Adjective
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Miners argue increased subjection to the dust has led to an eruption of black lung, an incurable disease associated with inhaling the particles.—
Sasha Rogelberg,
Fortune,
14 Oct. 2025
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According to the Cleveland Clinic, LMD is an incurable condition in which cancer cells spread from an advanced cancer to the cerebrospinal fluid and the membranes around the brain and spinal cord.—
Ashley Hume,
FOXNews.com,
28 Sep. 2025
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Talk of a solution—of two states, of a confederation, of nearly any prospect for a secure and free mode of coexistence—has long been dismissed as either an ingenuous assertion of faith or a cynical pantomime, an empty gesture toward a future no one expects to see.—
David Remnick,
New Yorker,
19 Oct. 2025
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As my colleague Charlie Warzel wrote in March, on X, the White House is now a troll account, borrowing its snide visual language and tone from some of the internet’s most cynical spaces and deploying this style to mock and dehumanize people.—
Kaitlyn Tiffany,
The Atlantic,
9 Oct. 2025
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Even underground facilities are usually impossible to build in these places, because the construction sites get targeted.—
Robert F. Worth,
The Atlantic,
19 Oct. 2025
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Each junction behaves slightly differently, forming a complex 3D network that is impossible to exactly replicate.—
Rupendra Brahambhatt,
Interesting Engineering,
19 Oct. 2025
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His two estranged children (James Corden, Jessica Gunning), desperate for an inheritance, hire Lori, an art restorer and former forger (Michaela Coel), to pose as a prospective assistant in order to access eight unfinished canvases Julian has buried deep in storage.—
Anthony D'Alessandro,
Deadline,
16 Oct. 2025
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His two estranged children (Corden and Gunning), desperate for his inheritance, hire an art forger (Coel) to complete a key project from his past.—
Rebecca Rubin,
Variety,
16 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Exhausted and despairing, many Palestinians had their own reasons for refusing to pack up and uproot themselves again.—
WAFAA SHURAFA,
Arkansas Online,
7 Sep. 2025
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People are despairing over the Supreme Court and its deference to the president.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
4 July 2025
Adjective
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Steve's wife, Chelsey Bridges, announced the sad news on Friday in a video shared to her late husband's social pages.—
Mekishana Pierre,
Entertainment Weekly,
17 Oct. 2025
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This admission seemed sad—critics are supposed to take pride in withstanding disagreement.—
Spencer Kornhaber,
The Atlantic,
17 Oct. 2025
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The pessimistic version, though?—
Zach Pressnell,
MSNBC Newsweek,
19 Oct. 2025
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So why doesn’t Logano just conform to the more pessimistic outlook instead of trying to infuse others with brightness?—
Jeff Gluck,
New York Times,
17 Oct. 2025
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Jason Kelce, brother of Travis and former star of the Philadelphia Eagles, has issued a statement after a fake quote of him appearing to criticize those unhappy with the selection of Bad Bunny for the Super Bowl Halftime Show went viral.—
Jon Blistein,
Rolling Stone,
15 Oct. 2025
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Advertisement Lawmakers are reportedly unhappy with briefings on the strikes, unable to clarify the legal basis of the strikes, and the refusal from Pentagon officials to provide unedited video footage of such incidents.—
Callum Sutherland,
Time,
15 Oct. 2025
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“Hopeless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hopeless. Accessed 24 Oct. 2025.
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