hopeless

  • (a) 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
  • (s) of a person unable to do something skillfully
    • I'm hopeless at mathematics
  • (s) certain to fail
    • the situation is hopeless
  • (s) (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

Antonyms

hopeful

See also

discouraging impossible pessimistic

Words of close approximity

hopelessly hopelessness