HOPELESSNESS

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

The despair you feel when you have abandoned hope of comfort or success

Classified under:

Nouns denoting feelings and emotions

Hypernyms ("hopelessness" is a kind of...):

despair (the feeling that everything is wrong and nothing will turn out well)

Antonym:

hopefulness (the feeling you have when you have hope)

Derivation:

hopeless (without hope because there seems to be no possibility of comfort or success)

hopeless (of a person unable to do something skillfully)