hopeless

1. Without hope because there seems to be no possibility of comfort or success (synset 301231893)
   "in an agony of hopeless grief"; "with a hopeless sigh he sat down"
   also:

   • discouraging - depriving of confidence or hope or enthusiasm and hence often deterring action
   • pessimistic - expecting the worst possible outcome
   • impossible - not capable of occurring or being accomplished or dealt with
   similar to:

   • abject, unhopeful - showing utter resignation or hopelessness
   • black, bleak, dim - offering little or no hope
   • despairing, desperate - arising from or marked by despair or loss of hope
   • despondent, heartsick - without or almost without hope
   • forlorn - marked by or showing hopelessness
   • futureless - having no prospect or hope of a future
   • helpless, lost - unable to function; without help
   • insoluble - without hope of solution
2. Of a person unable to do something skillfully (synset 302237557)
   "I'm hopeless at mathematics"
   similar to: unskilled - not having or showing or requiring special skill or proficiency
3. Certain to fail (synset 301828961)
   "the situation is hopeless"
   similar to: impossible - not capable of occurring or being accomplished or dealt with
4. (informal to emphasize how bad it is) beyond hope of management or reform (synset 301131271)
   "she handed me a hopeless jumble of papers"; "he is a hopeless romantic"
   domain usage: colloquialism - a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech
   similar to: bad - having undesirable or negative qualities

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