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hopeless:
- sans espoir; sans perspective; sans issue; sans avenir; affolé; impossible; la mer à boire; irréalisable; impraticable
Wiktionary:
- hopeless → désespéré, indécrottable
- hopeless → sans issue, espérer, désespéré, espoir

English

Detailed Translations for hopeless from English to French

hopeless:

hopeless adj

hopeless (futureless; desperate; impossible; without chance)
sans espoir; sans perspective; sans issue; sans avenir
- sans espoir adj
- sans perspective adj
- sans issue adj
- sans avenir adj
hopeless
affolé; sans espoir; impossible
- affolé adj
- sans espoir adj
- impossible adj
hopeless (unfeasible; impractical)
la mer à boire; irréalisable; impraticable
- la mer à boire adj
- irréalisable adj
- impraticable adj
hopeless (without hope; desperate)
sans issue; sans perspective; sans avenir
- sans issue adj
- sans perspective adj
- sans avenir adj

Translation Matrix for hopeless:

Modifier	Related Translations	Other Translations
affolé	hopeless	desperate; terrified; very afraid
impossible	hopeless	disagreeable; impossible; impractible; indigestible; not feasible; unrealistic
impraticable	hopeless; impractical; unfeasible	hard-going; impassable; impractible; not feasible; unrealistic; unridable
irréalisable	hopeless; impractical; unfeasible	impractible; not feasible; unrealistic
la mer à boire	hopeless; impractical; unfeasible
sans avenir	desperate; futureless; hopeless; impossible; without chance; without hope
sans espoir	desperate; futureless; hopeless; impossible; without chance	irreparable; irretrievable
sans issue	desperate; futureless; hopeless; impossible; without chance; without hope
sans perspective	desperate; futureless; hopeless; impossible; without chance; without hope

Related Words for "hopeless":

hopelessness, hopelessly

Synonyms for "hopeless":

abject; resigned; unhopeful; black; bleak; dim; despairing; desperate; despondent; heartsick; forlorn; futureless; gloomy; grim; darkening; helpless; lost; insoluble; discouraging; impossible; pessimistic
unskilled
impossible
bad

Antonyms for "hopeless":

hopeful

Related Definitions for "hopeless":

(informal to emphasize how bad it is) beyond hope of management or reform¹
- she handed me a hopeless jumble of papers¹
- he is a hopeless romantic¹
without hope because there seems to be no possibility of comfort or success¹
- in an agony of hopeless grief¹
- with a hopeless sigh he sat down¹
certain to fail¹
- the situation is hopeless¹
of a person unable to do something skillfully¹
- I'm hopeless at mathematics¹

Wiktionary Translations for hopeless:

hopeless

adjective

destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing
- hopeless → désespéré

hopeless

adjective

Qui être dans le désespoir, qui agir par désespoir.
- désespéré → desperate; hopeless
Rare au sens littéral Qu’on ne peut décrotter.
- indécrottable → hopeless

Cross Translation:

From	To	Via
• hopeless	→ sans issue	↔ ausweglos — ohne Aussicht auf eine Verbesserung der Situation
• hopeless	→ espérer; désespéré; espoir	↔ hoffnungslos — keine Hoffnung (mehr) besitzend; pessimistisch

¹WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University