hopeless

Meaning

1. Without hope; despairing; not expecting anything positive.
2. Giving no ground of hope; promising nothing desirable; desperate.
3. Without talent, not skilled.
4. Incurable.

Synonyms

desperate

despairing

unpromising

forlorn

useless

despondent

incorrigible

difficult

remediless

hard

tough

helpless

discouraging

disheartening

unhappy

☹️

no good

🙅

dejected

unfavorable

bleak

incurable

irredeemable

disconsolate

deadend

abject

good for nothing

lonely

lost

gloomy

past hope

unhopeful

depressed

inauspicious

inconsolable

irremediable

irreparable

living

luckless

melancholy

miserable

no-go

pessimistic

sad

☹️

unconsoled

uneasy

unhealed

unlucky

unmanageable

unreformable

unregenerate

vain

worthless

wretched

misfortunate

simple matter

problem free

having no prospects/future

dystopian

despairful

having no future

having no prospects

black

burnt

comfortless

confirmed

crestfallen

dark

degraded

dent

depressing

depressive

desolate

despaired

desperation

desponding

disappointed

😞

dispirited

dispiriting

distraught

distressed

dreary

dysphoric

end

🔚

endless

futile

gone

good-for-nothing

hapless

hopelessness

imperishable

impossible

Translations

désespéré

hoffnungslos

desesperado

aussichtslos

hopeloos

ausweglos

zwecklos

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈhəʊplɪs/

Etymology

Cognate with Swedish: hopplös

In summary

From hope + -less, compare Swedish hopplös.