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hopeless adjective [ ˈhəʊplɪs ]

• feeling or causing despair.
• "Jess looked at him in mute hopeless appeal"
Similar: despairing, without hope, in despair, desperate, dejected, downhearted, despondent, demoralized, disconsolate, downcast, wretched, woebegone, forlorn, negative, pessimistic, defeatist, resigned, irremediable, beyond hope, lost, beyond remedy, beyond repair, beyond recovery, irreparable, irreversible, incorrigible, despaired of, past cure, incurable, grave, fatal, deadly, impossible, with no chance of success, useless, no-win, futile, unworkable, impracticable, pointless, vain, bootless, parlous,
Opposite: optimistic, remediable, curable, hopeful,
• very bad or incompetent.
• "I'm hopeless at names"
Similar: very bad, very poor, awful, terrible, dreadful, appalling, frightful, atrocious, inferior, incompetent, inadequate, ineffective, pathetic, useless, lousy, rotten, a dead loss, abysmal, dire, duff, rubbish, a load of pants,
Opposite: accomplished,


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