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Hopeless vs Frustration - What's the difference?

hopeless | frustration |

As an adjective hopeless

is without hope; despairing; not expecting anything positive.

As a noun frustration is

frustration.

hopeless

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Without hope; despairing; not expecting anything positive.
  • * (William Shakespeare)
  • I am a woman, friendless, hopeless .
  • *, chapter=15
  • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=Edward Churchill still attended to his work in a hopeless mechanical manner like a sleep-walker who walks safely on a well-known round. But his Roman collar galled him, his cossack stifled him, his biretta was as uncomfortable as a merry-andrew's cap and bells.}}
  • Giving no ground of hope; promising nothing desirable; desperate.
  • Without talent, not skilled
  • He's a hopeless writer, but can draw very well.

    Usage notes

    * Nouns to which "hopeless" is often applied: case, situation, romantic, love, cause, person, despair, life, undertaking, alcoholic, man, endeavor, place, pain, agony, project.

    Synonyms

    * desperate

    Antonyms

    * hopeful

    References

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    frustration

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of frustrating, or the state, or an instance of being frustrated
  • A thing that frustrates
  • The feeling of annoyance when one's actions are criticized or hindered
  • Anger not directed at anything or anyone in particular