The meaning of HOPELESS is having no expectation of good or success : despairing. How to use hopeless in a sentence. Synonym Discussion of Hopeless.
Definition of hopeless adjective from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. if something is hopeless, there is no hope that it will get better or succeed. It's hopeless trying to convince her. We won't bother to appeal—it's a hopeless case. He felt that his life was a hopeless mess.
Having no possibility of being solved or dealt with; impossible: a hopeless problem; a hopeless disease. b. Having no hope or chance of changing or improving: a hopeless romantic; a hopeless procrastinator. hope′less ness n. American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition.
If you feel hopeless, you feel very unhappy because there seems to be no possibility of a better situation or success. He had not heard her cry before in this uncontrolled, hopeless way.
(Definition of hopeless from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
Adjective hopeless (comparative more hopeless, superlative most hopeless) Without hope; despairing; not expecting anything positive.
HOPELESS definition: providing no hope; beyond optimism or hope; desperate. See examples of hopeless used in a sentence.
Hopeless, despairing, despondent, desperate all describe an absence of hope. Hopeless is used of a feeling of futility and passive abandonment of oneself to fate: Hopeless and grim, he still clung to the cliff.
Hopeless is an adjective that refers to a state or condition where there is little or no chance of improvement, progress, or success. It implies a feeling of despair, futility, or lack of optimism about a particular situation or outcome.