- 絶望的
- ぜつぼうてき【絶望的】~な hopeless; desperate.
●絶望的な事態[情勢] a desperate state of affairs; a hopeless situation.
●もはやかれらの生存は絶望的だ. There can no longer be any hopes that they have survived. | All hope for their survival [that they may have survived] has now faded.
・回復はもう絶望的だ. There is no longer any chance that he will recover. | We must give up hopes for his recovery.
・必ずしも絶望的でない. There is still some hope.
・「試験はどうだ」「いや絶望的です」 “How did the exam go?”―“Not a hope [chance].”
・前途はまったく絶望的だ. There's not a shred [even a gleam] of hope ahead. | The future is utterly bleak [without hope].
Japanese-English dictionary. 2013.