hopeless vs hopeful
Definitions
adjective
- of a person unable to do something skillfully
- (informal to emphasize how bad it is) beyond hope of management or reform
- certain to fail
- without hope because there seems to be no possibility of comfort or success
Examples
From that moment, he anchors his existence in the hopeless need to share an affective contiguity with this random female acquaintance by changing the time of every clock and watch he encounters to Paris time.
In their opening and closing games England's lumbering back four were hopelessly outmanoeuvred by bursts of fast, mobile, unpredictable attacks, like tankers anchored as speedboats darted around them.
And I feel hopelessly undereducated, with all the MAs around me.
Definitions
adjective
- likely to turn out well in the future
- having or manifesting hope
noun
- an ambitious and aspiring young person
Examples
Hopefully, North Norfolk will soon shake off this surreal obsession with the Lib Dems and embrace their NE Cambs neighbour's decent Tory stance.
Cap Cities executives said they were hopeful approval would come in a couple of weeks.
Hopefully, this knowledge will save many householders a great deal of elbow grease!
