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Without hope

hopeless

adjective

feeling or showing no hope

gloomy

adjective

feeling sad and without hope

pessimistic

adjective

thinking that the worst thing will happen in every situation

bleak

adjective

without any reasons to feel happy or hopeful

dejected

adjective

someone who is dejected has lost all their hope or enthusiasm, especially because they have failed at something

broken

adjective

a broken person has lost all hope and enthusiasm, because of bad experiences

despairing

adjective

feeling that a situation is so bad that nothing you can do will change it

negative

adjective

giving more attention or emphasis to bad possibilities than good ones

fatalistic

adjective

believing that you cannot prevent things from happening, especially bad things

cynical

adjective

someone who is cynical expects things not to be successful or useful

charticle

a news article that consists of a chart … and only has a small amount of text

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