hopeless

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   beyond hope of management or reform

   The desk was nothing but a hopeless jumble of papers.

2. 2
   adj

   without hope because there seems to be no possibility of comfort or success

   in an agony of hopeless grief

3. 3
   adj

   certain to fail

   the situation is hopeless

4. 4
   adj

   of a person unable to do something skillfully

   I'm hopeless at mathematics

5. 5
   adj

   Without hope; despairing; not expecting anything positive.

   I am a woman, friendless, hopeless.

6. 6
   adj

   Giving no ground of hope; promising nothing desirable; desperate.

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

7. 7
   adj

   Without talent, not skilled.

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

8. 8
   adj

   Of an adverse condition, incurable.

   She is a hopeless romantic.

Etymology

From hope + -less, compare Swedish hopplös.