Usually means: Incapable of improvement or success.
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We found 30 dictionaries that define the word Hopeless:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. hopeless: Merriam-Webster
  2. hopeless: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hopeless: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. hopeless: Collins English Dictionary
  5. hopeless: Vocabulary.com
  6. Hopeless, hopeless: Wordnik
  7. hopeless: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. hopeless: Wiktionary
  9. hopeless: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. hopeless: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. hopeless: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Hopeless, hopeless: Dictionary.com
  13. hopeless: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Hopeless (Andy Williams song), Hopeless (How I Met Your Mother), Hopeless (Lichtenstein), Hopeless (Roy Lichtenstein), Hopeless: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Hopeless: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. hopeless: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. hopeless: Rhymezone
  18. hopeless: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. hopeless: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. hopeless: FreeDictionary.org
  21. hopeless: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. hopeless: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. hopeless: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hopeless: Legal dictionary

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
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  2. hopeless: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hopeless: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Hopeless: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (hopeless)

▸ adjective:  Without hope; despairing; not expecting anything positive.
▸ adjective:  Giving no ground of hope; promising nothing desirable; desperate.
▸ adjective:  Without talent, not skilled.
▸ adjective:  (of an adverse condition) Incurable.

Similar:
desperate, bad, despairing, forlorn, lost, despondent, heartsick, unskilled, dim, bleak, more...

Opposite:
hopeful, optimistic, confident, assured, sanguine

Types:
bleak, dismal, gloomy, pessimistic, negative, dark, more...

Phrases:
hopeless romantic, Hopeless Records, Hopeless Fountain Kingdom, The Young and the Hopeless, Hopeless Fountain Kingdom Tour, more...

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Similar:
desperate, bad, despairing, forlorn, lost, despondent, heartsick, unskilled, dim, bleak, more...

Opposite:
hopeful, optimistic, confident, assured, sanguine

Types:
bleak, dismal, gloomy, pessimistic, negative, dark, more...

Phrases:
hopeless romantic, Hopeless Records, Hopeless Fountain Kingdom, The Young and the Hopeless, Hopeless Fountain Kingdom Tour, hopeless love, feeling hopeless, hopeless situation, sad and hopeless, more...

Colors:
    gray,     black,     charcoal,     pewter,     gunmetal, more...



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