'Hopeless' definitions:
Definition of 'hopeless'
From: WordNet
adjective
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" [ant: hopeful]
adjective
Of a person unable to do something skillfully; "I'm hopeless at mathematics"
adjective
Certain to fail; "the situation is hopeless"
adjective
(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"
Definition of 'Hopeless'
From: GCIDE
- Hopeless \Hope"less\, a.
- 1. Destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing. [1913 Webster]
- I am a woman, friendless, hopeless. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Giving no ground of hope; promising nothing desirable; desperate; as, a hopeless cause. [1913 Webster]
- The hopelessword of "never to return" Breathe I against thee, upon pain of life. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Unhoped for; despaired of. [Obs.] --Marston. -- {Hope"less*ly}, adv. -- {Hope"less*ness}, n. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'hopeless'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- absurd,
- affording no hope,
- aloof,
- apathetic,
- bad,
- barred,
- benumbed,
- blah,
- blase,
- bleak,
- bootless,
- cheerless,
- closed-out,
- comatose,
- comfortless,
- contrary to reason,
- cureless,
- deadly,
- deficient,
- dejected,
- depressed,
- desensitized,
- despaired of,
- despairing,
- desperate,
- despondent,
- desponding,
- detached,
- disconsolate,
- discouraged,
- disinterested,
- dismal,
- done for,
- downcast,
- dull,
- dying,
- excluded,
- expiring,
- facing death,
- fatal,
- forlorn,
- funereal,
- futile,
- given up,
- gloomy,
- glum,
- going,
- gone,
- grim,
- heartless,
- hebetudinous,
- hoper,
- immedicable,
- impossible,
- impracticable,
- in a stupor,
- in articulo mortis,
- in despair,
- in extremis,
- inadequate,
- incapable of life,
- incompetent,
- inconceivable,
- inconsolable,
- incorrigible,
- incurable,
- indifferent,
- inept,
- inferior,
- insoluble,
- insouciant,
- irredeemable,
- irremediable,
- irreparable,
- irretrievable,
- languid,
- Laodicean,
- lethal,
- lethargic,
- listless,
- logically impossible,
- lost,
- low,
- lugubrious,
- melancholy,
- miserable,
- moribund,
- morose,
- near death,
- nonchalant,
- nonviable,
- not possible,
- numb,
- numbed,
- Olympian,
- oxymoronic,
- paradoxical,
- passive,
- phlegmatic,
- pluckless,
- pointless,
- Pollyanna,
- poor,
- preposterous,
- prohibited,
- resigned,
- ridiculous,
- ruled-out,
- sad,
- self-contradictory,
- sinking,
- slack,
- slipping,
- slipping away,
- sluggish,
- soporific,
- sorrowful,
- spiritless,
- spunkless,
- stoic,
- stupefied,
- supine,
- terminal,
- torpid,
- unavailing,
- uncaring,
- unconcerned,
- uncorrectable,
- unfit,
- unhappy,
- unhopeful,
- unimaginable,
- uninterested,
- unqualified,
- unthinkable,
- unworkable,
- useless,
- vain,
- withdrawn,
- without hope,
- woebegone,
- worthless,
- wretched