• (GA) IPA: /ˈhoʊplɪs/
• (RP) IPA: /ˈhəʊplɪs/

hopeless

1. Without hope; despairing; not expecting anything positive.
   • 1613, William Shakespeare; [John Fletcher], “The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act III, scene i]:

     I am a woman, friendless, hopeless.

2. Giving no ground of hope; promising nothing desirable; desperate.

   a hopeless cause

3. Without talent, not skilled

   He's a hopeless writer, but can draw very well.

4. (of an adverse condition) Incurable.

   She is a hopeless romantic.

   He is a hopeless idler.

• desperate
• unhopeful

• hopeful

• French: désespéré
• German: hoffnungslos
• Italian: disperato
• Portuguese: desesperado, desesperançado
• Russian: безнадёжный
• Spanish: desesperado