hopelessness
hopelessness noun: the state of having no hope, being unhopeful.
Noun
hopelessness (countable and uncountable, plural hopelessnesses)
- The state of having no hope, being unhopeful.
- Near-synonym: pessimism
- Depression can induce an overwhelming sense of sadness and hopelessness.2022 August 23, Dani Blum, “How Can I Tell if I’m Depressed or Burned Out?”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 31 Aug 2022
- Synonyms:
- despair, desperation, despondency, pessimism
- Antonyms:
- hopefulness, hope, optimism, Panglossianism, Pollyannaism
- Lack of potential.
- He considered the former tooling hopeless, and he reported its hopelessness to his boss right away.
hopelessness meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Kannada
hopelessness in Hindi
- the lack of hope; despair
- निराशा nirāśā
hopelessness in Tamil
- நிராசை, நைராசியம்
hopelessness in Urdu
- the lack of hope; despair
- نا اُمِّیدی nā ummīdī, مایُوسی māyūsī
hopelessness in Kannada
- ಹತಾಶ ಪರಿಸ್ಥಿತಿ, ಆಶಾರಹಿತ ಸ್ಥಿತಿ, ನಿರಾಶಸ್ಥಿತಿ, ಹತಾಶೆ, ನಿರಾಶೆ, ಕೈ ಮೀರಿದ ಸ್ಥಿತಿ
More languagesFewer languages
- hopelessness in Sanskrit
- नैराश्य nairāśya
- hopelessness in Tagalog
- kawalang-pag-asa
- hopelessness in Indonesian
- keputusasan
- hopelessness in Vietnamese
- sự tuyệt vọng
Examples of hopelessness in a sentence
- More than 40% of high school students said that feelings of sadness or hopelessness prevented them from engaging in their regular activities for at least two weeks of the year.2023 February 13, Deidre McPhillips, “Teens, especially girls, are experiencing more violence, suicidal thoughts and mental health...
- On the app I’d ultimately go with, I presented myself truthfully, as a Republican-curious woman tired of the Democrats’ hopelessness and constant pivoting during a highly charged election year.2025 February 18, Vera Papisova, “I Spent Nearly a Year on a Conservative Dating App as a Liberal—Here’s What I Learned”, in Cosmopolitan:
Synonyms of hopelessness
Antonyms
Forms of hopelessness
| plural | hopelessnesses |
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Origin of hopelessness
From hopeless + -ness.
Words formed from hopelessness
Questions about hopelessness
- What does hopelessness mean?
- Hopelessness means the state of having no hope, being unhopeful.
- What is hopelessness in Hindi?
- Hopelessness in Hindi is निराशा (nirāśā). See Hopelessness meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use hopelessness in a sentence?
- More than 40% of high school students said that feelings of sadness or hopelessness prevented them from engaging in their regular activities for at least two weeks of the year.
- What part of speech is hopelessness?
- Hopelessness is a noun.
- What is the plural of hopelessness?
- The plural of hopelessness is hopelessnesses.
Words near hopelessness in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: hopelessness (page history and authors); hopelessness (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); hopelessness (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); नैराश्य (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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