HOPELESS

adj. 1 desperate, beyond hope or saving, irreparable, beyond repair, irremediable, lost, gone, irretrievable; incurable, terminal, deadly, fatal, lethal As their ship drifted into the intergalactic void, they saw that their situation was hopeless They told me that her condition was hopeless. 2 bad, poor, incompetent, inferior, inadequate, inept, unqualified, unfit, unskilful, deficient You might make a good surgeon, but as a judge of human nature you're hopeless 3 despairing, despondent, forlorn, woebegone, disconsolate, inconsolable, depressed, dejected, melancholy, downcast, gloomy, miserable, discouraged, wretched, lugubrious, funereal, sorrowful, sad, unhappy Utterly hopeless after his script was rejected by Hollywood, he moped in his room 4 futile, vain, bootless, unavailing, impossible, impracticable, unworkable, pointless, worthless, useless It would be hopeless to try to send out a lifeboat in this storm