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Adjectives (5)
desperate
adj. "a hopeless attempt"
desolate, godforsaken, lorn, sad
adj. marked by or showing hopelessness; "the last forlorn attempt"; "a forlorn cause"
Fuzzynyms (35)
down, downcast, low, depressed, dispirited, downhearted, low-spirited
adj. low in spirits; "lonely and blue in a strange city"; "depressed by the loss of his job"; "a dispirited and resigned expression on her face"; "downcast after his defeat"; "feeling discouraged and downhearted"
miserable, wretched, execrable, deplorable, woeful
adj. of very poor quality or condition; "deplorable housing conditions in the inner city"; "woeful treatment of the accused"; "woeful errors of judgment"
dejected
adj. affected or marked by low spirits; "is dejected but trying to look cheerful"
miserable, wretched
adj. very unhappy; full of misery; "he felt depressed and miserable"; "a message of hope for suffering humanity"; "wretched prisoners huddled in stinking cages"
unhappy, sad
adj. experiencing or marked by or causing sadness or sorrow or discontent; "unhappy over her departure"; "unhappy with her raise"; "after the argument they lapsed into an unhappy silence"; "had an unhappy time at school"; "the unhappy (or sad) news"; "he looks so sad"
lonely, lonesome
adj. marked by dejection from being alone; "felt sad and lonely"; "the loneliest night of the week"; "lonesome when her husband is away"; "spent a lonesome hour in the bar"
grievous, heartbreaking, heartrending
adj. causing or marked by grief or anguish; "a grievous loss"; "a grievous cry"; "her sigh was heartbreaking"; "the heartrending words of Rabin's granddaughter"
disconsolate, inconsolable, unconsolable
adj. sad beyond comforting; incapable of being consoled; "inconsolable when her son died"
dejected
adj. affected or marked by low spirits; "is dejected but trying to look cheerful"
depressed, despairing, despondent, heartsick
adj. without or almost without hope; "despondent about his failure"; "too heartsick to fight back"
melancholy, melancholic
adj. characterized by or causing or expressing sadness; "growing more melancholy every hour"; "her melancholic smile"; "we acquainted him with the melancholy truth"
heartsick, brokenhearted, heartbroken
adj. full of sorrow
Synonyms (24)
abject, resigned, unhopeful
adj. showing utter resignation or hopelessness; "abject surrender"
black, dim, bleak
adj. offering little or no hope; "the future looked black"; "prospects were bleak"; "Life in the Aran Islands has always been bleak and difficult"- J.M.Synge; "took a dim view of things"
depressed, despairing, despondent, heartsick
adj. without or almost without hope; "despondent about his failure"; "too heartsick to fight back"
futureless
adj. having no prospect or hope of a future
gloomy, pessimistic
adj. characterized by hopelessness; filled with gloom; "gloomy at the thought of what he had to face"; "gloomy predictions"; "a gloomy silence"; "took a grim view of the economy"; "the darkening mood"
lost, helpless
adj. unable to function; without help
incurable
adj. "a hopeless case"
insoluble
adj. without hope of solution; "an insoluble problem"
derelict, deserted, abandoned
adj. forsaken by owner or keeper ; "weed-grown yard of an abandoned farmhouse"
cade
adj. (of a young animal) abandoned by its mother and raised by hand: "a cade calf"
castaway, rejected
adj. something or someone judged unacceptable; "rejected merchandise"
marooned
adj. cut off or left behind; "an isolated pawn"; "several stranded fish in a tide pool"; "travelers marooned by the blizzard"
Antonyms (4)
hopeful
adj. having or manifesting or inspiring hope; "a line of people hopeful of obtaining tickets"; "found a hopeful way of attacking the problem"
optimistic
adj. expecting the best in this best of all possible worlds; "in an optimistic mood"; "optimistic plans"; "took an optimistic view"
sanguine, optimistic
adj. pertaining to optimism
forlorn
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