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hopeless

/ˈhəʊplɪs/

US pronunciation
American sound/ˈhəʊplɪs/
hopeless
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2 syllables
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ho - pe - less -> hopeless

Myanmar meaning

(adj) မျှော်လင့်ချက်မရှိသော။

Full entry

hopeless /'hǝƱplǝs/ adj

၁။ မျှော်လင့်ချက်မရှိ [သော]။ အလားအလာ မရှိ[သော]။ a hopeless situation/struggle/ attempt ❍ It's hopeless trying to convince her. ❍ Most of the students are making good progress but Jeremy seems a hopeless case. ❍ He said that his life was a hopeless mess.
၂။ မျှော်လင့်ချက်မရှိသော။ အားကိုးရာမဲ့သော။ a sad and hopeless character ❍ She felt lonely and hopeless.
၃။ ~ (at sth) (infml ) အလွန်ညံ့ဖျင်းသော။ သုံးမရသော။ a hopeless cook/ teacher ❍ I'm hopeless at maths.
❏ hopelessly adv မလူးသာမလွန့်သာ။ လွန်လွန်ကျွံကျွံ။ မရှုမလှ။ be hopelessly confused/ out-numbered ❍ be hopelessly in debt/ in love.
❏ hopelessness n [U] မျှော်ကိုးရာမဲ့ခြင်း။ လက်လျှော့လိုစိတ်။ a sense/ feeling of hopelessness.

More examples
  • The lawyers said it was a hopeless case.
  • This is hopeless. I’ll never learn to swim.
  • As far as mechanical ability goes, George is hopeless.
  • [hopeless at] : I am hopeless at paying my bills on time.
  • A hopeless romantic (=very romantic person)
  • Their hopeless faces
Synonyms
bad, desperate, discouraging, unpromising, fruitless, impossible, bleak, doomed to failure, beyond recall, clueless, cynical, dejected, demoralized, depressed, despairing, despondent, disconsolate, disheartened, doomed, downhearted, fatal, forlorn, futile, gone, goner, helpless, ill-fated, impracticable, in despair, incompetent, incurable, inept, irredeemable, irreparable, irreversible, irrevocable, lost, menacing, miserable, morose, no-win, past hope, pathetic, pessimistic, pointless, sad, shot down, sinister, sunk, terrible, threatening, tragic, unachievable, unavailing, unfortunate, unmitigable, up the creek, useless, vain, woebegone, worsening
Antonyms
auspicious, bright, cheerful, encouraging, excellent, expectant, good, happy, hopeful, joyful, optimistic, positive, promising, propitious, rosy
Cross references
baddesperatediscouragingunpromisingfruitlessimpossiblebleakdoomed to failurebeyond recallcluelesscynicaldejecteddemoralizeddepresseddespairingdespondentdisconsolatedishearteneddoomeddownheartedfatalforlornfutilegonegonerhelplessill-fatedimpracticable
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