HOPELESS

a.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
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Destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing. I am a woman, friendless, hopeless. Shak.

2.
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Giving no ground of hope; promising nothing desirable; desperate; as, a hopeless cause. The hopelessword of "never to return" Breathe I against thee, upon pain of life. Shak.

3.
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Unhoped for; despaired of. [Obs.] Marston. -- Hope"less*ly, adv. -- Hope"less*ness, n.

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