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(adj)
Feeling, expressing, or caused by despair; hopeless.
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In low spirits from loss of hope or courage.
Pitifully sad, wretched, miserable; lonely, especially from feeling abandoned, deserted, forsaken.
Dismal and gloomy, cold and forbidding.
Of low quality.
In dire need (of something); having a dire need or desire.
Very despondent or sorrowful; heartsore.
Existing in or sunk to a low condition, position, or state; contemptible, despicable, miserable.
Suffering from gloom; melancholy; dejected.
Lacking help; powerless.
Unhappy; cheerless; miserable; emotionally desolate.
In an unknown location; unable to be found.
Of a person or workforce: not having a skill or technical training.
Not hopeful.
Of an illness, condition, etc, that is unable to be cured; healless.
(of an object) Absorbing all light and reflecting none; dark and hueless.
Not possible; not able to be done or happen.
Without a future.
(physical chemistry) That cannot be dissolved.
Not bright or colorful.
Characterized by resignation or acceptance.
Causing despair; gloomy and bleak.
Characterized by or feeling deep affliction or distress; very miserable.
Marked or accompanied by or resulting in misfortune.
Requiring action to prevent bad consequences: urgent, pressing.
Very unpleasant; disagreeable.
Deeply hurt, saddened, or worried; incapacitated by distress.
(of a person) Pained by the loss of someone.
Bound to end in failure.
Able to be regretted, especially deserving of regret.
Going nowhere; blocked.
Incapable of producing results, useless; doomed not to be successful; not worth attempting.
Discouraging; inspiring fear.
Having no worth or use; without value.
(vulgar, sometimes offensive) Used as an intensifier.
Having no purpose; purposeless; unable to effect an aim.
Unhelpful, not useful; pointless (of an action).
(figuratively) Unproductive, useless.
Not providing help or assistance; not helpful.
Assured to suffer death, failure, or a similarly negative outcome.
(colloquial) Unconvincing or unbelievable.
(sometimes vulgar) Generic intensifier. Fucking; bloody.
Containing nothing; empty; not occupied or filled.
In a state of panic, worry, frenzy, or rush.
Having no validity; "null and void".
Difficult to deal with, solve, or manage. (of a problem)
Incapable of being repaired, amended, cured or rectified; unrepairable.
Not needed; unnecessary.
Unable to be remedied, cured, corrected or repaired; irreparable, incurable.
Incapable of being reversed or turned about or back; incapable of being made to run backwards.
(n)
Nothing; zero.
Not needed or necessary.
Unmanageable; impervious to correction by punishment or pain.
(idiomatic) Final, as a last resort; done in desperation.
Resulting from an illusion; deceptive, imaginary, unreal.
(postpositive) Used in the names of foodstuffs, especially beverages, to indicate a version with no calories
at a complete standstill because of opposition of two unrelenting forces or factions
That causes discouragement.
Not redeemable; not able to be restored, recovered, revoked, or escaped.
That cannot be salvaged; not salvageable.
Not promising.
Impossible to attain or reach; unable to accomplish
Marked by pessimism and little hopefulness; expecting the worst.
Characterised by despair; hopeless.
Sad, discouraged, in low spirits, unhappy, having no hope
Having an absolute or (more often) relative lack of light.
(v)
(African-American Vernacular, Southern US, Cockney, auxiliary verb, taking a past tense) Used in forming the perfective aspect; have.
Deserted and devoid of inhabitants.
Without a wish or wishes.
Without prospects; futureless.
Devoid of cheer; gloomy.
Having lost confidence or hope; dejected; disheartened.
Without joy; unhappy, sad.
Doomed; without hope of recovery.
Without happiness or joy; unjoyful; sorrowful; sad.
Malevolent; cold and cruel.
Without succour; with no source of aid.
In a state of misery: very sad, ill, or poor.
Deserted; abandoned.
Without result; lacking effect, success or accomplishment; fruitless.
Having no chance or opportunity.
(sports) Without goals; in which no goals have been scored; having scored no goals.
Devoid of opportunity.
Without hops.
Alternative form of downhearted. [Sad, discouraged, in low spirits, unhappy, having no hope]
joyless
(especially of a person) unfortunate.
Destitute of a fortune or portion; without money.
Profitless; pointless; unavailing.
With nothing in one's hands.
Without relief (in various senses of the word)
Without a haven.
(now rare) Without success; unsuccessful.
(rare) Devoid of lack.
(of places) Of poor fertility, infertile; not producing vegetation; desert, waste.
Without a heaven.
Without energy, gusto or drive, enervated, without the will to accomplish, disheartened.
Having never won; without a win; unsuccessful.
(figurative, of a location) Desolate, boring and depressing.
Malevolent