hopeless

hopeless
hope‧less S3 /ˈhəʊpləs $ ˈhoʊp-/ adjective1. if something that you try to do is hopeless, there is no possibility of it being successful:
    We tried to stop the flames from spreading, but we knew it was hopeless.
    Getting your work published often seems a hopeless task.
    I kept on struggling forward, even though I knew it was hopeless.
2. a hopeless situation is so bad that there is no chance of success or improvement:
    The situation is not as hopeless as it might seem.
    the millions who live in hopeless poverty
3. especially British English informal very bad
   SYN  terrible:
    I’m a hopeless cook.
    hopeless at (doing) something
    My brother was always pretty hopeless at ball games.
    hopeless with
    I’m hopeless with machinery.
    I’ve got a hopeless memory.
    The public transport system was absolutely hopeless.
4. feeling no hope:
    I began to feel lonely and hopeless.
5. used, often humorously, to say that someone’s bad behaviour cannot be changed:
    Oh, James, you really are a hopeless case (=it seems impossible to change your behaviour)!
    hopeless romantic/materialist/drunk etc
    She was a hopeless romantic, always convinced that one day she would meet the man of her dreams.
—hopelessness noun [uncountable]