Subscriber login


Forgot your password?

Library card login

Other

hopeless

Syllabification: (hope·less)
Pronunciation: /ˈhōplis/

Translate hopeless | into French | into German | into Italian | into Spanish
Definition of hopeless

adjective

  • 1feeling or causing despair about something:his situation was obviously hopeless Jessica looked at him in mute hopeless appeal
  • 2inadequate; incompetent:I’m hopeless at names

Derivatives

hopelessness

noun

hopeless in other Oxford dictionaries

Definition of hopeless in the British & World English dictionary