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The definition of hopeless is a desperate or very sad person or thing, or something that is impossible to solve.

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An example of hopeless is a person about to commit suicide.
An example of hopeless is someone trying to get a salary increase from an employer that's going out of business.

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See hopeless in Webster's New World College Dictionary

adjective

without hope: a hopeless prisoner
allowing no hope; causing despair: a hopeless situation
impossible to solve, cure, deal with, teach, etc.

Related Forms:

hopelessly adverb
hopelessness noun

See hopeless in American Heritage Dictionary 4

adjective

Having no hope; despairing. See Synonyms at despondent.
Offering no hope; bleak.
Incurable.
Having no possibility of solution; impossible.

Related Forms:

hopeˈless·ness noun

hopeˈless·ly adverb

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