ἀνέλπιστ-ος, ον,
unhoped for, [[ 1st c.AD(?): Heraclitus 18; φυγή 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 330; θαῦμα 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 673; ἔργον 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.33; τύχη 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Helena” 412] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὸ ἀ. τοῦ βεβαίου the hopelessness of attaining any certainty, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.83; τὰ ἀ. 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1383a8; οὐκ ἀ. μοι γέγονεν τὸ γεγονός 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Apologia” 36a. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]adverb -τως unexpectedly, γέγονεν ἀ. μέγας Canon Laws texts cited in [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.182, compare 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Pelopidas” 4. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__II active,
__II.1 of persons, having no hope, hopeless, [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “ἀφορισμοί” 7.47, “Prog.” 19; ἀ. δὲ θανόντες 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 4.42] Refs 5th c.BC+]: with infinitive, ἀ. σωθήσεσθαι[[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 8.1; ἀ. ἐπιγενέσθαι ἄν τινα σφίσιπολέμιον ] Refs 5th c.BC+]not expecting that.., [[ [prev. author] 3.30; ἀ. τοῦ ἑλεῖν 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Cynegeticus” 7.9; ἀ. ἔς τινα 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.17; ἀ. καταστῆσαί τινι ὡς.. [prev. author] 3.46. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]adverb -τως, ἔχει he is in despair, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Philebus” 36b. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II.2 of things or conditions, leaving no hope, desperate, βίοτος[[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 186 (Lyric poetry), 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 5.102; πρὸς τὸ ἀ. τραπόμενοι [prev. author] 2.51] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἀ. οὐδέν [ἐστι], with accusative et infinitive, it is nowise unreasonable to expect that.., [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 4.24] Refs 5th c.BC+]: comparative, τὰ ἐκ τῆς γῆς ἀνελπιστότερα ὄντα[[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.4] Refs 5th c.BC+]. adverb -τως, νουσέειν[[ 2nd c.AD: Aretaeus Medicus “ὀξέων νούσων θεραπευτικόν” 2.5.] Refs 2nd c.AD+]