Adjective
1. without hope because there seems to be no possibility of comfort or success;
"in an agony of hopeless grief""with a hopeless sigh he sat down"2. of a person unable to do something skillfully;
"I'm hopeless at mathematics"3. certain to fail;
"the situation is hopeless"4. (informal to emphasize how bad it is) beyond hope of management or reform;
"she handed me a hopeless jumble of papers""he is a hopeless romantic"