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Motivation vs Hopeless - What's the difference?

motivation | hopeless |

As a noun motivation

is (label) motivation.

As an adjective hopeless is

without hope; despairing; not expecting anything positive.

motivation

English

(wikipedia motivation)

Noun

(en noun)
  • Willingness of action especially in behavior
  • The action of motivating.
  • Something which motivates.
  • An incentive or reason for doing something.
  • (advertising) a research rating that measures how the rational and emotional elements of a commercial affect consumer intention to consider, visit, or buy something.
    • The motivation scores showed that 65% of people wanted to visit our website to learn more about the offer after watching the commercial.

    Derived terms

    * intrinsic motivation * extrinsic motivation

    References

    * (sense) The Advertising Research Handbook Charles E. Young, Ideas in Flight, Seattle, WA, April 2005 ----

    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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