hopelessadjective
uk/ˈhəʊp.ləs/us/ˈhoʊp.ləs/B1 without hope:
a hopeless situation
They searched for survivors but it was hopeless.
She was depressed and felt totally hopeless about the future.
B2 completely without skill at a particular activity:
I'm hopeless at sports.
He's a hopeless cook.
More examples
- When he first went for treatment at the hospital he seemed to be a hopeless case.
- The characters in his novels inhabit a bleak and hopeless universe.
- "It's hopeless, " he said, shaking his head despondently.
- The situation seems to become more hopeless with every passing day.
- There is no way out of here. We've tried everything - it's hopeless.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Not hopeful
- be in a funk idiom
- be on a hiding to nothing idiom
- chance
- defeatist
- dejected
- dim
- give up on sb/sth
- glum
- grim
- hiding
- hope
- lose
- negative
- not give much for sb's chances idiom
- not have a hope in hell idiom
- pessimism
- pessimistic
- prophet
- prophet of doom idiom
- win
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Useless and futile
Inability and awkwardness
hopelessness
noun [ U ] uk/ˈhəʊp.ləs.nəs/us/ˈhoʊp.ləs.nəs/
I find the hopelessness of the situation very depressing.