Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being hopeless; discouragement; despair.
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- noun the
lack ofhope ;despair
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- noun the despair you feel when you have abandoned hope of comfort or success
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Examples
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Wente acknowledges that suicide bombers like Aayat are driven to bombing by hopelessness and despair - but that this "hopelessness" is largely a creation of a culture that glorifies death and shoves the joy of "martyrdom" down the throats of the young.
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The bipartisan committment to hopelessness is thus ensured for another four years.
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What struck me most about I Am Legend was how it comprised a study in hopelessness and despair.
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What struck me most about I Am Legend was how it comprised a study in hopelessness and despair.
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What struck me most about I Am Legend was how it comprised a study in hopelessness and despair.
I Am Legend by Richard Matheson « I Can’t Stop Reading! 2008
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Over 90% of what looks like hopelessness is just a recording that's paper thin, and right beyond it is them waiting to bust through.
WHEN JOHNNY COMES MARCHING HOME AGAIN Maggie Jochild 2007
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Still, I really wanted to feel a deeper sense of hopelessness from the diggers.
Films You Might Want To See rabid1st 2003
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At times, too, now, she almost bent before what seemed her fate, in hopelessness of escaping from it; and at those times she strove to accommodate herself to it, and tried to propitiate her captor.
The Old Helmet 1864
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Bihar is a sun-bleached state of 90 million people in the east of India, and it has for decades been a byword for hopelessness.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed Stephanie Nolen 2011
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Bihar is a sun-bleached state of 90 million people in the east of India, and it has for decades been a byword for hopelessness.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed Stephanie Nolen 2011
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