hopeless (Meaning)

Wordnet

hopeless (a)

without hope because there seems to be no possibility of comfort or success

Wordnet

hopeless (s)

of a person unable to do something skillfully

certain to fail

(informal to emphasize how bad it is) beyond hope of management or reform

Webster

hopeless (a.)

Destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing.

Giving no ground of hope; promising nothing desirable; desperate; as, a hopeless cause.

Unhoped for; despaired of.

FAQs About the word hopeless

without hope because there seems to be no possibility of comfort or success, of a person unable to do something skillfully, certain to fail, (informal to emphas

incurable, irretrievable, irredeemable,incorrigible, irremediable, unpromising,unredeemable, unreformed, uncorrectable, irreversible

remediable, reversible, savable, encouraging, curable, promising, promising, reclaimable, retrievable, reversible

The situation felt utterly hopeless, with no apparent way out of the relentless misery.

Their dreams had crumbled into dust, leaving them feeling hopelessly defeated.

The diagnosis was grim, plunging them into a realm of hopelessness.

The relentless rain battered the roof, evoking a sense of hopelessness within the isolated house.