hopeless

EnglishEdit

hopeless (comparative more hopeless, superlative most hopeless)

Without hope; despairing; not expecting anything positive.
- 1613, William Shakespeare; [John Fletcher], “The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act III, scene i]:
  I am a woman, friendless, hopeless.
- 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 15, in The Mirror and the Lamp:
  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 cossack stifled him, his biretta was as uncomfortable as a merry-andrew's cap and bells.
Giving no ground of hope; promising nothing desirable; desperate.
a hopeless cause
Without talent, not skilled
He's a hopeless writer, but can draw very well.
(of an adverse condition) Incurable.
She is a hopeless romantic.

He is a hopeless idler.

Nouns to which "hopeless" is often applied: case, situation, romantic, love, cause, person, despair, life, undertaking, alcoholic, man, endeavor, place, pain, agony, project.

destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing

Afrikaans: hopeloos
Armenian: անհույս (hy) (anhuys)
Bulgarian: безнадежден (bg) (beznadežden)
Catalan: desesperat
Chinese:
Mandarin: 沒有希望的, 没有希望的 (méiyǒu xīwàng de), 絕望的 (zh), 绝望的 (zh) (juéwàng de)
Czech: beznadějný (cs) m
Danish: håbløs
Dutch: hopeloos (nl), uitzichtloos (nl), kansloos (nl)
Finnish: toivoton (fi)
French: désespéré (fr) m
Georgian: უიმედო (uimedo)
German: hoffnungslos (de)
Greek: ανέλπιδος (el) (anélpidos)
Ancient Greek: ἀνέλπιστος (anélpistos)
Hungarian: reménytelen (hu)
Italian: disperato (it)
Japanese: 絶望した (ja) (ぜつぼうした, zetsubō shita), 絶望的な (ぜつぼうてきな, zetsubōteki na)

desperate — see desperate

without talent — see talentless

not skilled — see nonskilled

incurable — see incurable