- 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"
- of a person unable to do something skillfully;
"I'm hopeless at mathematics"
- certain to fail;
"the situation is hopeless"
- (informal to emphasize how bad it is) beyond hope of management or reform;
"she handed me a hopeless jumble of papers" "he is a hopeless romantic"