hopeless

adjective

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

Similar word(s): discouraging, abject, unhopeful, black, bleak, dim, despairing, desperate, despondent, heartsick, forlorn, futureless, helpless, lost, insoluble, pessimistic, impossible

2. of a person unable to do something skillfully

- I'm hopeless at mathematics

Similar word(s): unskilled

3. certain to fail

- the situation is hopeless

Similar word(s): impossible

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

Similar word(s): bad