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Sombre is a related term of hopeless.


As a verb sombre

is .

As an adjective hopeless is

without hope; despairing; not expecting anything positive.

sombre

English

Alternative forms

* (US ) somber

Adjective

(er)
  • Dark; gloomy.
  • Dull or dark in colour.
  • Melancholy; dismal.
  • * Beaconsfield
    • The dinner was silent and sombre ; happily it was also short.
  • Grave.
    • a sombre situation

    Synonyms

    * melancholy * dreary * dire * dismal

    Noun

    (-)
  • (obsolete) gloom; obscurity; duskiness

    • Verb

  • To make sombre or dark; to make shady.
    • (Webster 1913)

    Anagrams

    * ----

    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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