hopeless
/'houplis/
Definition
- Adjective:
- Without hope; feeling or showing no expectation of positive outcome: Describes a situation or person's emotional state where there is no prospect of improvement, success, or comfort.
- Certain to fail; having no possibility of success: Describes a task, plan, or situation that is doomed or impossible to manage effectively.
- (Of a person) Incapable of learning or doing something competently; very bad at something: Used informally to describe a severe lack of skill or ability in a particular area.
- Extremely bad; beyond remedy or reform: Used informally for emphasis to describe something of very poor quality or someone with an ingrained, unchangeable habit.
Examples of Usage
- Describing a feeling or situation:
- He gave a hopeless sigh.
- The search seemed hopeless after three days.
- Describing certain failure:
- It's a hopeless plan from the start.
- The situation is hopeless; we must evacuate.
- Describing incompetence:
- I'm completely hopeless at cooking.
- She's hopeless with technology.
- Emphasizing poor quality or an ingrained trait:
- This report is a hopeless mess.
- My brother is a hopeless optimist.
Advanced Usage
- "A hopeless case": A person or situation considered beyond help or reform.
- The doctor considered the patient a hopeless case.
- "Hopelessly in love": So deeply in love that one feels or acts without rational control.
- He was hopelessly in love with her.
Variants and Related Words
- Hopelessly (adverb): In a manner without hope or beyond remedy.
- He is hopelessly lost.
- The project was hopelessly behind schedule.
- Hopelessness (noun): The state or feeling of having no hope.
- A feeling of hopelessness overwhelmed her.
Synonyms
- Desperate: Feeling or showing a hopeless sense that a situation is so bad as to be impossible to deal with.
- Futile: Incapable of producing any useful result; pointless.
- Incompetent: Not having or showing the necessary skills to do something successfully.
- Incurable: Not able to be cured (of a person or habit); beyond reform.
Antonyms
- Hopeful: Feeling or inspiring optimism about a future event.
- Promising: Showing signs of future success.
- Competent: Having the necessary ability, knowledge, or skill to do something successfully.
Idioms and Common Phrases
- "Not have a hope in hell": To have no chance at all of succeeding (similar in meaning to a hopeless situation).
- You don't have a hope in hell of winning that race.
- "Beyond hope": So bad that there is no possibility of improvement or recovery.
- The old car is beyond hope; we should scrap it.
Adjective
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(informal to emphasize how bad it is) beyond hope of management or reform
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she handed me a hopeless jumble of papers
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he is a hopeless romantic
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certain to fail
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the situation is hopeless
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of a person unable to do something skillfully
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I'm hopeless at mathematics
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without hope because there seems to be no possibility of comfort or success
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in an agony of hopeless grief
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with a hopeless sigh he sat down
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