hopeless
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- If you are hopeless you do not have hope. You do not expect anything good to happen.
- When I lost my job I became completely hopeless.
- If a situation (way things are) is hopeless, there is little chance that something good might happen. The situation can't be made better.
- The sinking ship was hopeless, there was no way to repair it.
- The people on the sinking ship found the situation hopeless, because land was too far to swim to.
- If you are hopeless, there is no chance you will change or learn.
- Oh, you're hopeless! You keep expecting someone perfect to come through that door, but it will never happen.