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Meaning of 'hopeless'
Meaning of 'hopeless' (Webster Dictionary)
1. Hopeless 
[ a.]
- Destitute of hope; having no expectation of good;
despairing. [ a.]- Giving no ground of hope; promising nothing desirable; desperate; as, a hopeless cause.
- Unhoped for; despaired of.
Meaning of 'hopeless' (Princeton's WordNet)
1. hopeless [ a]
[ a]Meaning (1):
- without hope because there seems to be no possibility of comfort or success
- without hope because there seems to be no possibility of comfort or success
Example in sentence:
- in an agony of hopeless grief;
- with a hopeless sigh he sat down
2. hopeless [ s]
[ s]Meaning (2):
- of a person unable to do something skillfully
- of a person unable to do something skillfully
Example in sentence:
- I'm hopeless at mathematics
Meaning (3):
- (informal to emphasize how bad it is) beyond hope of management or reform
- (informal to emphasize how bad it is) beyond hope of management or reform
Example in sentence:
- he is a hopeless romantic;
- she handed me a hopeless jumble of papers
Meaning (4):
- certain to fail
- certain to fail
Example in sentence:
- the situation is hopeless
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