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US
/ˈhoʊpɫəsnəs/
]
[ UK /hˈəʊpləsnəs/ ]
[ UK /hˈəʊpləsnəs/ ]
NOUN
- the despair you feel when you have abandoned hope of comfort or success
How To Use hopelessness In A Sentence
- There was not the same sense of hopelessness that prevailed in previous conflicts.
- Yet his hopelessness in the 1994 film did not dissuade one family from buying into the dream. Times, Sunday Times
- You are stuck here sharing in the hopelessness and breathing the putrid air for the next seven days.
- And if you do not, then young people face unemployment and the hopelessness it brings. Times, Sunday Times
- Musharraf spent much of his time talking about what he called the desperation, hopelessness, and powerlessness of Muslims around the world, who see disputes like the one over Kashmir and the Palestinian people going unresolved. CNN Transcript Nov 10, 2001
- People are dying, mainly Muggles, but also Mudbloods, and any whose bloodline is tainted with that of the non-magical, leading to a growing world that hearkens back to the time of the Third Reich in Nazi Germany, as well as echoing the doom and hopelessness of 1984. 2010 March 01 « The BookBanter Blog
- Try to understand the blackness, lethargy, hopelessness, and loneliness they're going through.
- The utter hopelessness of attempting to gain sleep while shuttling to and fro inside a coach is almost impossible to communicate.
- Both stories capture the hopelessness and desperation of grinding poverty, but in very different ways.
- I'm sitting here almost in tears, drowning in a sad mixture of melancholy, confusion, hopelessness, and self-pity.