Adjective complement with noun phrase

• consider: Sooner or later you and I will be obliged to consider a situation too hopeless to admit of discussion.

Modifying Another Word

• seemingly: Two young boys on a seemingly hopeless quest discover that where hope exists, life in a polluted river can renew itself.

• utterly: Personally I think it is more utterly hopeless in summer than in winter.

• pretty: Thus transfer of learning from school / academic contexts to outside ones is pretty hopeless.

• absolutely: I find Freeserve Customer Care to be absolutely hopeless.. .

• apparently: They used it to invest in apparently hopeless ventures or into business they knew little or nothing about.

• fairly: SB was fairly hopeless at keeping her finger pressed down!

Infinitive complement

• admit: Sooner or later you and I will be obliged to consider a situation too hopeless to admit of discussion.

Modifies a noun

• muddle: The whole thing is in danger of descending into a hopeless muddle.

• junkie: Rita sees him again when she is transferred to Blackmoor ( 665 ), a hopeless junkie under the control of Roo Morgan.

• addict: Everyone knew that Mavis was a hopeless drug addict.

• longing: For then the night will more than pay The hopeless longing of the day.

• mess: The SWP has got itself into a hopeless mess over equality.

• despair: This left them in a state of hopeless despair in which they desired to know of Peter what they should do.

Used with adjective complement

• seem: What seemed hopeless once, we now realize that there is light at the end of the tunnel.

• appear: The position, although it appeared hopeless, was changed when Private Tandey led a bayonet charge through them.

• feel: Feeling hopeless - that nothing will make things better.

• prove: The system of refining drafts between DH and the ACDP Working Group, which met only infrequently, proved hopeless.

• look: With the maps unfolded on the table our morning's cycling looks hopeless.

• become: The struggle for my personal survival is becoming hopeless.