HOPELESS


Meaning of HOPELESS in English

adjective

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADVERB

as

The situation is not as hopeless as it might seem.

Einstein would probably have been as hopeless as anybody in working out how to catch a woolly rhinoceros.

Pickles is as hopeless as ever!

They portrayed the family as hopeless , without possibility of improvement, and wanted the children kept in care.

Surprisingly, this task may not be as hopeless as it seems.

so

When she looked at poor little Hoomey, she was filled with pity for him being so hopeless .

■ NOUN

case

If Lee didn't know if his Dad was his Dad or not, he must be a hopeless case .

situation

Although you are in a seemingly hopeless situation , keep thinking and get your priorities right.

It kept me occupied in otherwise hopeless situations .

The hour of acute awareness was running out into the usual hopeless analysis of a hopeless situation , the usual emotional slush.

For a writer it's a hopeless situation .

task

It was a hopeless task to identify David among so many people.

It was a hopeless task , we were slowly sinking in the mire.

Nevertheless, he set about the seemingly hopeless task of making a bankrupt Command a going concern.

Then he turned and began the hopeless task of chasing his shoe as it flew back and to above his head.

A few have become internationally known, but it often seems a hopeless task .

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

""Please let me go to the party'' Ali begged her mother, but she knew it was hopeless .

"I do not believe that working to block the movement of cocaine into the US is a hopeless cause," McCaffrey told the panel.

Although Helga's condition appeared hopeless , her husband refused to give up.

Doug was hopeless at waiting tables.

I had this hopeless feeling as I approached the hospital.

It's hopeless to try to persuade him while he's in this mood. Let's talk to him tomorrow.

Police now face the hopeless task of trying to find the bombers.

Remember, it's just when things look hopeless that you sometimes get a lucky break.

The firemen tried to stop the flames from spreading, but it was hopeless .

The lawyers must have known their lawsuit was hopeless .

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

A hopeless slave like the best of them.

I pore over the hopeless , resigned faces, the emaciated bodies, the stick-like limbs.

It is difficult to trace the exact moment at which he decided that the military situation was hopeless .

Many of us ignore government, assuming that we are too busy to waste our time on such a hopeless cause.

The first telephoned his employer saying that it was hopeless , because no one wore shoes!

What had she thought, that their purpose led to another hopeless middle-class trap.

Why hadn't she realized how hopeless she had become, how she had forgotten everything during those months of pregnancy?

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