hopeless
adjEtymology
Etymology tree Proto-West Germanic *tōhopōnder. Old English tōhopa Old English hopa Middle English hope English hope Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁- Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der. Proto-Germanic *leusaną Proto-Germanic *lausaz Proto-Germanic *-lausaz Proto-West Germanic *-laus Old English -lēas Middle English -les English -less English hopeless From hope + -less. Compare Swedish hopplös.
- derived from hopplös
- derived from *tōhopōnder✻
Definitions
Without hope
Without hope; despairing; not expecting anything positive.
- I am a woman, friendless, hopeless.
- And he a prince; To marry him is hopeleſſe;
Giving no ground of hope
Giving no ground of hope; promising nothing desirable; desperate.
- My mind is a camera / Camela mon camela ambra / It brings into focus / The dreams of kings / And even the hopeless
Without talent, not skilled.
- He's a hopeless writer, but can draw very well.
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Of an adverse condition, incurable.
- She is a hopeless romantic.
- He is a hopeless idler.
The neighborhood
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for hopeless. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA