hopeless

/hˈoʊpləs/ · 2 syllables

Meaning

adjective

1. without hope because there seems to be no possibility of comfort or success
   “in an agony of hopeless grief”
2. of a person unable to do something skillfully
   “I'm hopeless at mathematics”
3. certain to fail
   “the situation is hopeless”
4. (informal to emphasize how bad it is) beyond hope of management or reform
   “she handed me a hopeless jumble of papers”

Synonyms for hopeless

• abject
• black
• despairing
• despondent
• forlorn
• futureless
• helpless
• insoluble
• unskilled
• impossible
• bad

Antonyms of hopeless

• hopeful