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Insurmountable vs Hopeless - What's the difference?

insurmountable | hopeless |

As adjectives the difference between insurmountable and hopeless

is that insurmountable is incapable of being passed over, surmounted, or overcome; insuperable; as, insurmountable difficulty or obstacle while hopeless is without hope; despairing; not expecting anything positive.

insurmountable

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Incapable of being passed over, surmounted, or overcome; insuperable; as, insurmountable difficulty or obstacle.

    • 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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