hopeless suggests despair and the cessation of effort or resistance and often implies acceptance or resignation.

They searched for survivors but it was hopeless. She was depressed and felt totally hopeless about the future.

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 …

Oct 17, 2025 · Edward Churchill still attended to his work in a hopeless mechanical manner like a sleep-walker who walks safely on a well-known round. But his Roman collar galled him, his …

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 adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.

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 …

We were hopeless at (playing) golf. He's very ill, but his condition isn't hopeless. He stared hopelessly out the window. He's a hopelessly naive person. She was hopelessly addicted to …

When you're struggling to learn a new language or tackling a difficult task and feeling utterly discouraged, you can say that you're hopeless. In other words, you have no hope that things …