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up the creek
adjective as in behind the eight ball
adjective as in defenseless
adjective as in desperate
Strongest matches
adjective as in hopeless
Weak matches
- bad
- beyond recall
- cynical
- dejected
- demoralized
- despairing
- despondent
- disconsolate
- discouraging
- downhearted
- fatal
- gone
- goner
- ill-fated
- impracticable
- in despair
- incurable
- irredeemable
- irreparable
- irreversible
- irrevocable
- lost
- menacing
- no-win
- past hope
- shot down
- sinister
- sunk
- threatening
- unachievable
- unavailing
- unfortunate
- unmitigable
- vain
- woebegone
- worsening
adjective as in irremediable
Weak matches
- bad
- beyond recall
- cureless
- cynical
- dejected
- demoralized
- despairing
- desperate
- despondent
- disconsolate
- discouraging
- downhearted
- fatal
- forlorn
- gone
- goner
- helpless
- ill-fated
- impossible
- impracticable
- in despair
- incurable
- irredeemable
- irreparable
- irreversible
- irrevocable
- lost
- menacing
- no-win
- past hope
- pointless
- sad
- shot down
- sinister
- sunk
- threatening
- tragic
- unachievable
- unavailing
- unfortunate
- unmitigable
- useless
- vain
- woebegone
- worsening
Example Sentences
The dog team was barreling up the creek and was drawn in by his commotion, and I barely got the sled stopped and tied off to a tree before they got to him.
I gathered gear, left the trap triggered and hanging from a branch, and made my way back up the creek.
“We economists are up the creek without a paddle in determining whether dog food prices will rise more or less quickly than cat food and/or thousands of other items such as prices of rubber bands, peanut butter, shoes, cars, turnips, etc.,” said Walter Block, an economist who teaches at Loyola University New Orleans.
To go more casual and rustic, opt for the historic Up the Creek on Oak Creek, in Cornville.
“It leaves them up the creek.”
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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