If you feel hopeless, you feel very unhappy because there seems to be no possibility of a better situation or success. He had not heard her cry before in this uncontrolled, hopeless way.

Hopeless, despairing, despondent, desperate all describe an absence of hope. Hopeless is used of a feeling of futility and passive abandonment of oneself to fate: Hopeless and grim, he still clung to the …

Having no possibility of being solved or dealt with; impossible: a hopeless problem; a hopeless disease. b. Having no hope or chance of changing or improving: a hopeless romantic; a hopeless …

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hopeless suggests despair and the cessation of effort or resistance and often implies acceptance or resignation.

HOPELESS definition: providing no hope; beyond optimism or hope; desperate. See examples of hopeless used in a sentence.

Definition of hopeless adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.

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