All hopelessness synonyms

noun hopelessness

• despair — Despair is the feeling that everything is wrong and that nothing will improve.
• gloom — total or partial darkness; dimness.
• melancholy — sober thoughtfulness; pensiveness.
• desperation — Desperation is the feeling that you have when you are in such a bad situation that you will try anything to change it.
• sorrow — distress caused by loss, affliction, disappointment, etc.; grief, sadness, or regret.
• despondency — Despondency is a strong feeling of unhappiness caused by difficulties which you feel you cannot overcome.
• misery — wretchedness of condition or circumstances.
• discouragement — an act or instance of discouraging.
• anguish — Anguish is great mental suffering or physical pain.
• ordeal — any extremely severe or trying test, experience, or trial.
• pain — physical suffering or distress, as due to injury, illness, etc.
• dejection — Dejection is a feeling of sadness that you get, for example, when you have just been disappointed by something.
• trial — German Der Prozess. a novel (1925) by Franz Kafka.
• tribulation — grievous trouble; severe trial or suffering.
• despondence — state of being despondent; depression of spirits from loss of courage or hope; dejection.
• wretchedness — very unfortunate in condition or circumstances; miserable; pitiable.
• forlornness — desolate or dreary; unhappy or miserable, as in feeling, condition, or appearance.
• dishearten — to depress the hope, courage, or spirits of; discourage.
• bleakness — bare, desolate, and often windswept: a bleak plain.
• depression — A depression is a time when there is very little economic activity, which causes a lot of unemployment and poverty.
• disheartenment — The act of disheartening.
• impossibility — condition or quality of being impossible.
• fruitlessness — The quality of being fruitless.
• futility — the quality of being futile; ineffectiveness; uselessness.
• uselessness — of no use; not serving the purpose or any purpose; unavailing or futile: It is useless to reason with him.
• ineptness — without skill or aptitude for a particular task or assignment; maladroit: He is inept at mechanical tasks. She is inept at dealing with people.
• ineptitude — quality or condition of being inept.
• incompetence — the quality or condition of being incompetent; lack of ability.
• cluelessness — The state of being clueless.
• inability — lack of ability; lack of power, capacity, or means: his inability to make decisions.
• desperateness — reckless or dangerous because of despair, hopelessness, or urgency: a desperate killer.
• despond — to lose heart or hope; become disheartened; despair