Hopeless

/ˈhəʊplɪs/ · adjective

Meaning

Without hope; despairing; not expecting anything positive..

Definitions by Sense

1. Without hope; despairing; not expecting anything positive.
2. Giving no ground of hope; promising nothing desirable; desperate.
3. Without talent, not skilled.
4. (figurative) Of an adverse condition, incurable.

Example Sentences

I am a woman, friendless, hopeless.

And he a prince; To marry him is hopeleſſe;

Edward Churchill still attended to his work in a hopeless mechanical manner like a sleep-walker who walks safely on a well-known round. But his Roman collar galled him, his cossack stifled him, his biretta was as uncomfortable as a merry-andrew's cap and bells.

A gaoler struck him, pushing him back in place in the hopeless, helpless line of prisoners.

My mind is a camera / Camela mon camela ambra / It brings into focus / The dreams of kings / And even the hopeless

He's a hopeless writer, but can draw very well.

" It is a pure waste of time." "Not at all," Malone answered. "It has ventilated an evil. There were reporters in court. Surely some of them have some sense. They will note the injustice." "Not they," said Mailey. "The Press is hopeless. My God, what a responsibility these people take on themselves, and how little they guess the price that each will pay! I know."

She is a hopeless romantic.

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• more hopeless
• most hopeless

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