网站首页  词典首页

请输入您要查询的词汇:

 

词汇 hopeless
释义 hopeless
adjective
uk /ˈhəʊp.ləs/ us /ˈhoʊp.ləs/
B1
without hope: 无希望的
a hopeless situation毫无希望的局势
They searched for survivors but it was hopeless.他们搜寻生还者,但没有什么希望。
She was depressed and felt totally hopeless about the future.她情绪低落,觉得未来毫无希望。
B2
completely without skill at a particular activity: 一窍不通的;蹩脚的
hopeless atI'm hopeless at sports.我在体育方面糟透了。
He's a hopeless cook.他做饭一塌糊涂。
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

bad at something
bad atI was overweight and bad at sport.
hopelessI’m completely hopeless in the kitchen.
uselessUKHe’s useless at maths.
rubbishUKShe’s a pretty rubbish singer, really.
incompetentThe rules have made it hard to remove incompetent teachers.
When he first went for treatment at the hospital he seemed to be a hopeless case.
The characters in his novels inhabit a bleak and hopeless universe.他小说中的人物生活在一个悲凄无望的世界里。
"It's hopeless, " he said, shaking his head despondently.“没希望了,”他说,沮丧地摇了摇头。
The situation seems to become more hopeless with every passing day.
There is no way out of here. We've tried everything - it's hopeless.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Not hopeful
a road to nowhereidiom
be in a funkidiom
be on a hiding to nothingidiom
be on the road to nowhereidiom
bleakly
bleakness
dispiritedly
dispiritedness
dispiritingly
doom and gloom
doomed
downcast
hiding
hope
hopelessly
hopelessness
lose heartidiom
undone
unhopeful
what are you going to do?idiom

You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics:


Useless and futile
Inability and awkwardness

Related word


hopelessness

hopeless | American Dictionary


hopeless
adjective
us/ˈhoʊp·ləs/
without hope:
We tried to save the building, but it was a hopeless task (= it could not succeed).

Examples of hopeless


hopeless
The situation could thus appear hopeless; but, as we shall see below, this difficulty will be resolved once we introduce hyperbolicity.
The law stipulates that physicians need to assess unbearable and hopeless suffering, but does not prescribe how this assessment should take place.
Most desertions happened among soldiers on leave, as trying to escape from the front must have seemed nearly hopeless to even the most desperate.
Such attributions can make the patient feel helpless and hopeless to exer t control or make life changes, except by taking medications.
There were also concerns that by getting involved they would raise clients' hopes of success or waste time on cases they knew to be hopeless.
No matter how hopeless a situation seems to be, we must never remain inactive.
In other words, 'doing it first' is a hopeless task for the underdog.
I have studied this problem myself and learned that it is hopeless to try to assemble such a device from the elements modeling conditional reflexes.
On the other hand, people who dwell on their depressive symptoms are likely to be more hopeless.
Besides, the millennium would be very dull, and quite hopeless from an artistic point of view.
Many were hopeless and confused as they faced their burnt establishments and the endless insurance reports.
If exchangees lost their precious land papers during the crossing, their situation was hopeless.
Currently, many opt-out procedures administered by web sites and others are hopeless and cumbersome, making it nearly impossible for citizens to exert real control.
They mutually pledged to one another that they would not allow similar interventions in the event either was in a hopeless situation.
Family members appear hopeless and seem to believe things will never change.
See all examples of hopeless
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
随便看

 

反思网英语在线翻译词典收录了377474条英语词汇在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用英语词汇的中英文双语翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。

 

Copyright © 2005-2024 fscai.com All Rights Reserved 更新时间:2025/3/10 23:18:21