hopeless Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. 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
  2. adjective satellite of a person unable to do something skillfully
    • I'm hopeless at mathematics
  3. adjective satellite certain to fail
    • the situation is hopeless
  4. adjective satellite (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

WordNet

Hope"less adjective
Definitions
  1. Destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing.
    I am a woman, friendless, hopeless. Shak.
  2. Giving no ground of hope; promising nothing desirable; desperate; as, a hopeless cause.
    The hopelessword of "never to return" Breathe I against thee, upon pain of life. Shak.
  3. Unhoped for; despaired of. Obs. Marston. -- Hope"less*ly, adv. -- Hope"less*ness, n.

Webster 1913