a. | 1. | Destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing. |
2. | Giving no ground of hope; promising nothing desirable; desperate; | |
3. | Unhoped for; despaired of. |
Adj. | 1. | hopeless - 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" Antonyms: hopeful - having or manifesting or inspiring hope; "a line of people hopeful of obtaining tickets"; "found a hopeful way of attacking the problem" |
2. | hopeless - of a person unable to do something skillfully; "I'm hopeless at mathematics" | |
3. | hopeless - certain to fail; "the situation is hopeless" | |
4. | 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" |