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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Hopeless \Hope"less\, a. 1. Destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing. I am a woman, friendless, hopeless. --Shak. 2. Giving no ground of hope; promising nothing desirable; desperate; as a hopeless cause The hopelessword of ``never to return'' Breathe I against thee, upon pain of life. --Shak. 3. Unhoped for despaired of [Obs.] --Marston. -- {Hope"less*ly}, adv -- {Hope"less*ness}, n. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: 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"
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