&c adj.; despair, desperation; despondency, depression &c (dejection)
837; pessimism, pessimist; Job's comforter; bird of bad omen, bird of
ill omen.
abandonment, desolation; resignation, surrender, submission &c
725.
hope deferred, dashed hopes; vain expectation &c (disappointment)
509.
airy hopes &c &c 858; forlorn hope; gone case, dead duck, gone
coon [U.S.]; goner [Slang]; bad job, bad business; enfant perdu [Fr.];
gloomy horizon, black spots in the horizon; slough of Despond, cave of
Despair; immedicabile vulnus [Lat.].
V. despair; lose all hope, give up all hope, abandon all hope,
relinquish all hope, lose the hope of, give up the hope of, abandon the
hope of, relinquish the hope of; give up, give over; yield to despair;
falter; despond &c (be dejected) 837; jeter le manche apres la cognee
[Fr.].
inspire despair, drive to despair &c n.; disconcert; dash one's
hopes, crush one's hopes, destroy one's hopes; hope against hope.
abandon; resign, surrender, submit &c 725.
Adj. hopeless, desperate, despairing, gone, in despair, au desespoir
[Fr.], forlorn, desolate; inconsolable &c (dejected) 837; broken
hearted.
unpromising, unpropitious; inauspicious, ill-omened, threatening,
clouded over.
out of the question, not to be thought of; impracticable &c 471;
past hope, past cure, past mending, past recall; at one's last gasp &c
(death) 360; given up, given over.
incurable, cureless, immedicable, remediless, beyond remedy;
incorrigible; irreparable, irremediable, irrecoverable, irreversible,
irretrievable, irreclaimable, irredeemable, irrevocable; ruined,
undone; immitigable.
Phr. lasciate ogni speranza voi ch'entrate [Dante]; its days are
numbered; the worst come to the worst; no change, no pause, no hope,
yet I endure [Shelley]; O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon
[Milton]; mene mene tekel upharson [Old Testament].