Hypertext Webster Gateway: "hopeless"
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 ``never to return'' Breathe I
against thee, upon pain of life. --Shak.
3. Unhoped for; despaired of. [Obs.] --Marston. --
{Hope"less*ly}, adv. -- {Hope"less*ness}, n.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
hopeless
adj 1: 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" [ant: {hopeful}]
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"; "he is a hopeless romantic"
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