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English Dictionary: hopeless	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for hopeless
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
hopeless adj 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" Antonym(s): hopeful 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"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Hopeless \Hope"less\, a. 1. Destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing. I am a woman, friendless, hopeless. --Shak. 2. Giving no ground of hope; promising nothing desirable; desperate; as, a hopeless cause. The hopelessword of [bd]never to return[b8] Breathe I against thee, upon pain of life. --Shak. 3. Unhoped for; despaired of. [Obs.] --Marston. -- {Hope"lessly}, adv. -- {Hope"lessness}, n.