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.