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[ UK /hˈə‍ʊpləs/ ]
[ US /ˈhoʊpɫəs/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. of a person unable to do something skillfully
    I'm hopeless at mathematics
  2. (informal to emphasize how bad it is) beyond hope of management or reform
    he is a hopeless romantic
    she handed me a hopeless jumble of papers
  3. certain to fail
    the situation is hopeless
  4. 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

How To Use hopeless In A Sentence

  • 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.
  • My job was often actually throwing the dart out of sight, since they were hopeless at aiming. Times, Sunday Times
  • It is no more a sign of weakness to change leadership in wartime if success depends on it than it is to remove a baseball pitcher who is getting shelled in order to prevent the game from becoming hopelessly lost.
  • Welcome the hopeless odds of meeting highly trained soldiers face-to-face. CONFESSIONAL
  • His eyes were black too, but had nothing of fierce or insolent; on the contrary, a certain melancholy swimmingness, that described hopeless love rather than a natural amorous languish. The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1
  • No days off and telling the world his players were hopeless after another hiding. The Sun
  • The news orgs, by contrast, are doing this out of laziness and a hopeless addiction to portraying lefties as a kind of perennially-disappointed lost tribe who will never, ever find their way out of the wilderness. News Orgs: The Left Is Upset With Obama -- Even Though It Isn't
  • There was not the same sense of hopelessness that prevailed in previous conflicts.
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