[ 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
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How To Use hopeless In A Sentence

  • 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.
  • So why has Polly come up with what is, even by her notoriously moronic standards, an outstandingly hopeless argument?
  • What is tragically evident from the Harry Read Me file is the picture it gives of the CRU scientists hopelessly at sea with the complex computer programmes they had devised to contort their data in the approved direction, more than once expressing their own desperation at how difficult it was to get the desired results. Coyote Blog » 2009 » November
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