hopeless

hopeless is a 8-letter English word with 7 senses as adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

8 letters · Scrabble 13 · Words With Friends 14 · 7 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing.
2. adjective. Giving no ground of hope; promising nothing desirable; desperate; as, a hopeless cause.
3. adjective. Unhoped for; despaired of.
4. adjective. (informal to emphasize how bad it is) beyond hope of management or reform

   "she handed me a hopeless jumble of papers"

   "he is a hopeless romantic"

5. adjective. without hope because there seems to be no possibility of comfort or success

   "in an agony of hopeless grief"

   "with a hopeless sigh he sat down"

6. adjective. certain to fail

   "the situation is hopeless"

7. adjective. of a person unable to do something skillfully

   "I'm hopeless at mathematics"

Common word forms

hopelessly, hopelessness

Words from these letters

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