HOPELESS

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hopeless adjectiv

1. fără speranţă, deznădăjduit, disperat;

hopeless grief durere nemângâiată / inconsolabilă.

2. fără speranţă de mai bine; (despre o maladie sau o pasiune) incurabil, fără leac; (despre o situaţie) fără ieşire;

hopeless weather vreme proastă / fără şanse de îndreptare;

the doctors say his case is hopeless doctorii spun că e condamnat;

(fam.) hopeless drunkard beţiv incorijibil / înrăit / înveterat.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

Escape was hopeless, out of the question.

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

Who can tell what a dark, dreary, hopeless life I have dragged on for months past?

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

Anne had done; glad that it was over, and not absolutely hopeless of doing good.

(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)

You will easily comprehend, from these particulars, that Mr. Wickham's circumstances are not so hopeless as they are generally believed to be.

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

As he leaned back in his chair in the familiar attitude I knew that the case was hopeless.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

My rescue from this kind of existence I considered quite hopeless, and abandoned, as such, altogether.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

Elinor had often wished for an opportunity of attempting to weaken her mother's dependence on the attachment of Edward and herself, that the shock might be less when the whole truth were revealed, and now on this attack, though almost hopeless of success, she forced herself to begin her design by saying, as calmly as she could, I like Edward Ferrars very much, and shall always be glad to see him; but as to the rest of the family, it is a matter of perfect indifference to me, whether I am ever known to them or not.

(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)

No, our position is hopeless—hopeless!

(The Lost World, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“I had no doubt that the gang of roughs who assaulted me had carried off both my hat and the bird. I did not care to spend more money in a hopeless attempt at recovering them.”

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"It's hopeless," Weedon Scott confessed.

(White Fang, de Jack London)

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