Definitions for hopeless

hopeless hope·less

Spelling: [hohp-lis]
IPA: /ˈhoʊp lɪs/

Hopeless is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 193 anagrams from letters in hopeless (eehlopss).

Definitions for hopeless

adjective

  1. providing no hope; beyond optimism or hope; desperate:
  2. without hope; despairing:
  3. impossible to accomplish, solve, resolve, etc.:
  4. not able to learn or act, perform, or work as desired; inadequate for the purpose:

Origin of hopeless

First recorded in 1560-70; hope + -less

Examples for hopeless

The Economist cover in 2000 dubbed it “The hopeless Continent,” with a photo of a grinning, heavily armed soldier.

Still remained that hopeless question: What should he do with himself?

This year, the president is asking Congress for $500 million to train and equip the very rebels Obama thinks are hopeless.

But four against one—and such a four as these—was hopeless odds.

Anyone who takes pot shots at a lovely wading bird is a hopeless defective, in my view, an evolutionary mistake.

In a land of great wealth, families must not live in hopeless poverty.

Society itself must be changed, right out from under our hopeless cases.

Mumford Sons, “hopeless Wanderer” That one time Jason Bateman, Ed Helms, Will Forte, and Jason Sudeikis had a jam session.

It is the sensible schemes, unfortunately, that are hopeless in England.

He knew that his case was hopeless, and he would not thaw even to the priest.

Word Value for hopeless
Scrable

13

Words with friends

14

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