Antonyms for at end of rope
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : rohp |
| Phonetic Transcription : roÊŠp |
Definition of at end of rope
Origin :- Old English rap "rope, cord, cable," from Proto-Germanic *raipaz (cf. Old Norse reip, West Frisian reap, Middle Dutch, Dutch reep "rope," Old Frisian silrap "shoe-thong," Gothic skauda-raip "shoe-lace," Old High German, German reif "ring, hoop"). Technically, only cordage above one inch in circumference and below 10 (bigger-around than that is a cable). Nautical use varies. Finnish raippa "hoop, rope, twig" is a Germanic loan-word.
- To know the ropes (1840, Dana) originally is a seaman's term. Phrase on the ropes "defeated" is attested from 1924, a figurative extension from the fight ring, where ropes figure from 1829. To be at the end of (one's) rope "out of resources and options" is first attested 1680s. Formerly also in many slang and extended uses related to punishment by hanging, e.g. John Roper's window "a noose," rope-ripe "deserving to be hanged," both 16c. To give someone (enough) rope (to hang himself) is from 1650s.
- As in incensed : adj very angry
- As in moribund : adj dying
- As in strained : adj forced, pretended
- As in despairing : adj upset, despondent
- As in desperate : adj hopeless
- As in dying : adj failing, expiring
Synonyms for at end of rope
- anxious
- artificial
- at death's door
- at end of one's rope
- at end of rope
- at the end of the rope
- awkward
- back to the wall
- blue
- brokenhearted
- buffaloed
- bugged
- bummed out
- burned up
- can't win
- choked
- constrained
- cynical
- dead duck
- decaying
- declining
- dejected
- depressed
- despairing
- desperate
- despondent
- desponding
- difficult
- disconsolate
- disintegrating
- dogged
- done for
- doomed
- downcast
- ebbing
- embarrassed
- enraged
- exasperated
- expiring
- fading
- false
- farfetched
- fated
- final
- forlorn
- frantic
- fuming
- furious
- futile
- giving up the ghost
- going
- gone
- goner
- grief-stricken
- hacked
- hard put
- hard up
- hopeless
- hot and bothered
- huffy
- in a state
- in extremis
- in pain
- in the dumps
- in the pits
- in the soup
- in the toilet
- inconsolable
- indignant
- infuriated
- irate
- ireful
- irrecoverable
- irremediable
- irretrievable
- labored
- mad
- maddened
- melancholic
- melancholy
- miffed
- miserable
- moribund
- mortal
- mortally ill
- nervous wreck
- no-chance
- no-way
- no-win
- not a prayer
- on last leg
- on one's deathbed
- on one's last leg
- on the warpath
- one foot in grave
- one foot in the grave
- oppressed
- passing
- peeved
- perishing
- pessimistic
- put
- riled
- rousted
- rubbed the wrong way
- running out of time
- sad
- self-conscious
- shot down
- sinking
- steamed up
- stiff
- strabilious
- strung out
- suicidal
- sunk
- taut
- tense
- tight
- uncomfortable
- uneasy
- unglued
- unnatural
- unrelaxed
- up against it
- up in arms
- up the creek
- uptight
- useless
- vain
- vanishing
- weighed down
- wired
- withering
- wrathful
- wreck
- wretched
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