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what are you going to do?
US informalDefinition
(Definition of what are you going to do? from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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SMART Thesaurus: Not hopeful
Synonyms and related words:
- be in a funk idiom
- be on a hiding to nothing idiom
- bleak adjective
- defeatist adjective
- dejected adjective
- despair verb
- dim adjective (NOT POSITIVE)
- downcast adjective (UNHAPPY)
- downhearted adjective
- forlorn adjective (UNLIKELY TO SUCCEED)
- gloom noun (WITHOUT HOPE)
- gloomy adjective (WITHOUT HOPE)
- glum adjective
- grim adjective (WITHOUT HOPE)
- hopeless adjective
- negativism noun
- not give much for sb's chances idiom
- not have a hope in hell idiom
- pessimism noun
- pessimistic adjective
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