Classes Sentient and Moral Powers Personal Affections Prospective Affections [Absence, want or loss of hope.] Hopelessness
Hopelessness (Absence, want or loss of hope)
Nouns
hopelessness etc. adj.
despair, desperation
despondency, depression etc. (dejection) Dejection
pessimism, pessimist
Job's comforter
bird of bad omen, bird of ill omen. abandonment, desolation
resignation, surrender, submission etc. Submission . hope deferred, dashed hopes
vain expectation etc. (disappointment) [Failure of expectation.] Disappointmentetc. etc. Hope
forlorn hope
gone case, dead duck, gone coon [U.S.]
goner [Slang]
bad job, bad business
gloomy horizon, black spots in the horizon
slough of Despond, cave of Despair
Verbs
despair
lose all hope, give up all hope, abandon all hope, relinquish all hope, lose the hope of, give up the hope of, abandon the hope of, relinquish the hope of
give up, give over
yield to despair
falter
despond etc. (be dejected) Dejection
drive to despair etc. n.
disconcert
dash one's hopes, crush one's hopes, destroy one's hopes
hope against hope. abandon
resign, surrender, submit etc. Submission .
Adjectives
hopeless, desperate, despairing, gone, in despair, forlorn, desolate
inconsolable etc. (dejected) Dejection
broken hearted. unpromising, unpropitious
inauspicious, ill-omened, threatening, clouded over. out of the question, not to be thought of
impracticable etc. Impossibility
past hope, past cure, past mending, past recall
at one's last gasp etc. (death) Death
given up, given over. incurable, cureless, immedicable, remediless, beyond remedy
incorrigible
irreparable, irremediable, irrecoverable, irreversible, irretrievable, irreclaimable, irredeemable, irrevocable
ruined, undone
immitigable.
Phrases
lasciate ogni speranza voi ch'entrate" [Dante]
its days are numbered
the worst come to the worst
no change, no pause, no hope, yet I endure" [Shelley]
O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon" [Milton]
mene mene tekel upharson" [Old Testament] .