unhopeful
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unhopeful — index despondent Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
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
