Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not hopeful; leaving no room for hope; hopeless.
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- adjective Not
hopeful .
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- adjective showing utter resignation or hopelessness
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Examples
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PCB 'unhopeful' of bilateral India-Pak series in near future
Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7 Ani 2010
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They told us that we and Clinton were cold and unhopeful and that emotions and inspiration were more important.
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This unhopeful question is referring to Nelson Mandela Morgan Freeman, who in 1994 was elected the first black President of an apartheid stricken South Africa.
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They told us that we and Clinton were cold and unhopeful and that emotions and inspiration were more important.
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You mean spirited, harsh, unhopeful view of the world is history dcshungu.
Polls: Hillary Narrowly Edges Obama In Four States, Huckabee Surging With GOP 2009
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So far, unfortunately, the Administration is sending unhopeful signs of non-change.
Harry Shearer: New Orleans: Where Accountability Failed, Liability Follows 2009
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If they aren't distinct, however, special divine action would just be intervention, in which case the project of developing a conception of special divine action that doesn't involve intervention is unhopeful.
Religion and Science Plantinga, Alvin 2007
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When he wrote to King Henry in unhopeful defence of Anne Boleyn and Thomas Cromwell, the convoluted sentences and sentiments show, not only a constitutionally timid man struggling to be brave (and all the braver for that), but a man uncomfortably capable of believing himself deceived and of seeing the world in double perspective.
The Martyrdom of Thomas Cranmer - Sermon at Service to Commemorate the 450th Anniversary. 2006
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The soldiers attacked again, and Elend raised his sword in a determined, but unhopeful, posture.
Mistborn Sanderson_Brandon 2006
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But I am still really unhopeful about ever getting a flight home.
Mecca & the Hajj: Lessons From the Islamic School of Hard Knocks, Episode One 2006
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