hopeless

Definition

Without hope; despairing; not expecting anything positive.

Etymology

From hope + -less, compare Swedish hopplös.

Example Sentences

• "I am a woman, friendless, hopeless."
• "And he a prince; To marry him is hopeleſſe;"
• "Edward Churchill still attended to his work in a hopeless mechanical manner like a sleep-walker who walks safely on a well-known round. But his Roman collar galled him, his cossack stifled him, his biretta was as uncomfortable as a merry-andrew's cap and bells."