Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for HOPE'LESS
HOPE'LESS, a.
- Destitute of hope; having no expectation of that which is desirable; despairing. I am a woman, friendless, hopeless. Shak.
- Giving no ground of hope or expectation of good; promising nothing desirable; desperate; as, a hopeless condition.
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