[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

hopeless \hope"less\, a.
   1. destitute of hope; having no expectation of good;
      despairing.
      1913 webster

            i am a woman, friendless, hopeless.   --shak.
      1913 webster

   2. giving no ground of hope; promising nothing desirable;
      desperate; as, a hopeless cause.
      1913 webster

            the hopelessword of "never to return"
            breathe i against thee, upon pain of life. --shak.
      1913 webster

   3. unhoped for; despaired of. obs. --marston. --
      hope"lessly, adv. -- hope"lessness, n.
      1913 webster
see also:
hope"lessly hope"lessness 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

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"
see also:
hopeful 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

143 moby thesaurus words for "hopeless":
   laodicean, olympian, pollyanna, absurd, affording no hope, aloof,
   apathetic, bad, barred, benumbed, blah, blase, bleak, bootless,
   cheerless, closed-out, comatose, comfortless, contrary to reason,
   cureless, deadly, deficient, dejected, depressed, desensitized,
   despaired of, despairing, desperate, despondent, desponding,
   detached, disconsolate, discouraged, disinterested, dismal,
   done for, downcast, dull, dying, excluded, expiring, facing death,
   fatal, forlorn, funereal, futile, given up, gloomy, glum, going,
   gone, grim, heartless, hebetudinous, hoper, immedicable,
   impossible, impracticable, in a stupor, in articulo mortis,
   in despair, in extremis, inadequate, incapable of life,
   incompetent, inconceivable, inconsolable, incorrigible, incurable,
   indifferent, inept, inferior, insoluble, insouciant, irredeemable,
   irremediable, irreparable, irretrievable, languid, lethal,
   lethargic, listless, logically impossible, lost, low, lugubrious,
   melancholy, miserable, moribund, morose, near death, nonchalant,
   nonviable, not possible, numb, numbed, oxymoronic, paradoxical,
   passive, phlegmatic, pluckless, pointless, poor, preposterous,
   prohibited, resigned, ridiculous, ruled-out, sad,
   self-contradictory, sinking, slack, slipping, slipping away,
   sluggish, soporific, sorrowful, spiritless, spunkless, stoic,
   stupefied, supine, terminal, torpid, unavailing, uncaring,
   unconcerned, uncorrectable, unfit, unhappy, unhopeful,
   unimaginable, uninterested, unqualified, unthinkable, unworkable,
   useless, vain, withdrawn, without hope, woebegone, worthless,
   wretched

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