Dictionary entry

Hopeless

Webster's Dictionary 1913

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. Marston.

— Hope″less‐ly, adv. — Hope″less‐ness, n.