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"
    
2. Certain to fail
   "the situation is hopeless"
    
3. Of a person unable to do something skilfully
   "I'm hopeless at mathematics"
    
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"

See also: abject, bad, black, bleak, despairing, desperate, despondent, dim, discouraging, forlorn, futureless, heartsick, heartsore, helpless, impossible, lorn, lost, pessimistic, unhopeful, unskilled

Antonym: hopeful

Encyclopedia: Hopeless, Dennis