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hopelessness
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hopelessness
Schmerz, Slough of Despond, absurdity, acedia, aloofness, apathy, ataraxia, ataraxy, benumbedness, blah, blahs, blank despondency, comatoseness, death wish, dejectedness, dejection, depression, despair, despondency, despondentness, detachment, discouragement, disheartenment, disinterest, dispassion, dispiritedness, down trip, downcastness, downer, downheartedness, drooping spirits, dullness, heartlessness, hebetude, impossibility, impossible, impossibleness, inappetence, inconceivability, indifference, insouciance, lack of appetite, languidness, lethargicalness, lethargy, listlessness, low spirits, lowness, lowness of spirit, malaise, no chance, nonchalance, not a prayer, numbness, oppression, oxymoron, paradox, passiveness, passivity, pessimism, phlegm, phlegmaticalness, phlegmaticness, plucklessness, resignation, resignedness, self-contradiction, self-destructive urge, sinking heart, sloth, sluggishness, sopor, soporifousness, spiritlessness, spunklessness, stupefaction, stupor, suicidal despair, supineness, taedium vitae, the impossible, torpidity, torpidness, torpor, unconcern, unimaginability, unthinkability, weariness of life, what cannot be, what cannot happen, withdrawnnessROGET THESAURUS
hopelessness
Hopelessness
N hopelessness, despair, desperation, despondency, depression, pessimism, pessimist, Job's comforter, bird of bad omen, bird of ill omen, abandonment, desolation, resignation, surrender, submission, hope deferred, dashed hopes, vain expectation, airy hopes &c, forlorn hope, gone case, dead duck, gone coon, goner, bad job, bad business, enfant perdu, gloomy horizon, black spots in the horizon, slough of Despond, cave of Despair, immedicabile vulnus, hopeless, desperate, despairing, gone, in despair, au desespoir, forlorn, desolate, inconsolable, broken hearted, unpromising, unpropitious, inauspicious, ill-omened, threatening, clouded over, out of the question, not to be thought of, impracticable, past hope, past cure, past mending, past recall, at one's last gasp, given up, given over, incurable, cureless, immedicable, remediless, beyond remedy, incorrigible, irreparable, irremediable, irrecoverable, irreversible, irretrievable, irreclaimable, irredeemable, irrevocable, ruined, undone, immitigable, lasciate ogni speranza voi ch'entrate, its days are numbered, the worst come to the worst, no change, no pause, no hope, yet I endure, O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, mene mene tekel upharson.Impossibility
N impossibility, what cannot, what can never be, sour grapes, hopelessness, impossible, not possible, absurd, contrary to reason, unlikely, unreasonable, incredible, beyond the bounds of reason, beyond the bounds of possibility, beyond the realm of possibility, from which reason recoils, visionary, inconceivable, prodigious, unimaginable, inimaginable, unthinkable, impracticable unachievable, unfeasible, infeasible, insuperable, unsurmountable, insurmountable, unattainable, unobtainable, out of reach, out of the question, not to be had, not to be thought of, beyond control, desperate, incompatible, inaccessible, uncomeatable, impassable, impervious, innavigable, inextricable, self- contradictory, out of one's power, beyond one's power, beyond one's depth, beyond one's reach, beyond one's grasp, too much for, ultra crepidam, the grapes are sour, non possumus, non nostrum tantas componere lites, look for a needle in a haystack, chercher une aiguille dans une botte de foin, il a le mer +a boire.For further exploring for "hopelessness" in Webster Dictionary Online