hopelessness

  • 71impossibility — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Lack of possibility Nouns 1. impossibility, what can never be; hopelessness; impracticability, infeasibility, insuperability. Informal, no go. Slang, fat chance, Chinaman s chance, snowball s chance in… …

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  • 72Impossibility — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Impossibility >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 impossibility impossibility &c. >Adj. Sgm: N 1 what cannot what cannot what can never be Sgm: N 1 sour grapes sour grapes Sgm: N 1 hopelessness hopelessness &c. 859 P …

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  • 73hopeless — [[t]ho͟ʊpləs[/t]] 1) ADJ GRADED If you feel hopeless, you feel very unhappy because there seems to be no possibility of a better situation or success. He had not heard her cry before in this uncontrolled, hopeless way... The economic crisis makes …

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  • 74despair — de•spair [[t]dɪˈspɛər[/t]] n. 1) loss of hope; hopelessness 2) a source of hopelessness: to be the despair of one s teachers[/ex] 3) to lose, give up, or be without hope: to despair of humanity[/ex] 4) Obs. to give up hope of • Etymology:… …

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  • 75despair — /dəˈspɛə / (say duh spair) noun 1. loss of hope; hopelessness. 2. that which causes hopelessness; that of which there is no hope. –verb (i) 3. to lose or give up hope. –phrase 4. despair of, to be without hope concerning: *Hugh despaired of… …

  • 76ἀνελπιστία — ἀνελπιστίᾱ , ἀνελπιστία hopelessness fem nom/voc/acc dual ἀνελπιστίᾱ , ἀνελπιστία hopelessness fem nom/voc sg (attic doric aeolic) …

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  • 77ἀνελπιστίας — ἀνελπιστίᾱς , ἀνελπιστία hopelessness fem acc pl ἀνελπιστίᾱς , ἀνελπιστία hopelessness fem gen sg (attic doric aeolic) …

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  • 78de|spair´er — de|spair «dih SPAIR», noun, verb. –n. 1. the loss of hope; state of being without hope; a dreadful feeling that nothing good can happen: »Despair seized us as we felt the boat sinking under us. SYNONYM(S): hopelessness. 2. a person or thing that… …

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  • 79de|spair — «dih SPAIR», noun, verb. –n. 1. the loss of hope; state of being without hope; a dreadful feeling that nothing good can happen: »Despair seized us as we felt the boat sinking under us. SYNONYM(S): hopelessness. 2. a person or thing that causes… …

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  • 80abject — adjective Etymology: Middle English, from Latin abjectus, from past participle of abicere to cast off, from ab + jacere to throw more at jet Date: 15th century 1. sunk to or existing in a low state or condition < to lowest pitch of abject fortune …

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