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hopelessness
Variant of hopeless
adjective
- without hope: a hopeless prisoner
- allowing no hope; causing despair: a hopeless situation
- impossible to solve, cure, deal with, teach, etc.
Related Forms:
- hopelessly adverb
- hopelessness noun
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