hopeless

Adjective

• Feeling or showing no hope; despairing or dire.
• without hope because there seems to be no possibility of comfort or success
  • "in an agony of hopeless grief"
  • "with a hopeless sigh he sat down"

Adjective Satellite

• of a person unable to do something skillfully
  • "I'm hopeless at mathematics"
• certain to fail
  • "the situation is hopeless"
• (informal to emphasize how bad it is) beyond hope of management or reform
  • "she handed me a hopeless jumble of papers"
  • "he is a hopeless romantic"

Adj

• Without hope; despairing; not expecting anything positive.
• Giving no ground of hope; promising nothing desirable; desperate.
• Without talent, not skilled.
• Incurable.

Examples

• a hopeless cause
• He is a hopeless idler.
• He's a hopeless writer, but can draw very well.
• She is a hopeless romantic.
• With a rack full of consonants, the situation seemed HOPELESS for a good play.

Synonyms

desperate, forlorn, unhopeful

Antonyms

hopeful

Anagrams of hopeless