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say it: HOH-pluhs
hopeless is an adjective meaning "without hope because there seems to be no possibility of comfort or success". It carries 4 recorded senses.
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”
(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”
colloquialism
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for hopeless come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.