hopeless
US: /ˈhoʊpɫəs/
UK: /hˈəʊpləs/
English - Vietnamese dictionary
hopeless /'houplis/- tính từ
- không hy vọng, thất vọng, tuyệt vọng
- a hopeless case: một trường hợp không hy vọng gì chữa chạy được (bệnh)
- a hopeless plan: mọt kế hoạch không hy vọng thành công
- thâm căn cố đế, không thể sửa chữa được nữa, không còn hy vọng gì vào được
- a hopeless drunkard: một anh chàng rượu chè be bét chẳng có cách gì mà sửa được nữa
- không hy vọng, thất vọng, tuyệt vọng
Advanced English dictionary
+ adjective1 if sth is hopeless, there is no hope that it will get better or succeed: a hopeless situation + It's hopeless trying to convince her. + Most of the students are making good progress, but Michael is a hopeless case. + He felt that his life was a hopeless mess.
2 (BrE, informal) extremely bad: The buses are absolutely hopeless these days!
3 ~ (at sth) (especially BrE) (of people) very bad (at sth); with no ability or skill: a hopeless driver + I'm hopeless at science.
4 feeling or showing no hope: She felt lonely and hopeless.
hopelessly adverb: hopelessly confused / outnumbered + They were hopelessly lost. + to be hopelessly in love + 'I'll never manage it,' he said hopelessly.
hopelessness noun [U]: a sense / feeling of hopelessness
Thesaurus dictionary
adj.
1 desperate, beyond hope or saving, irreparable, beyond repair, irremediable, lost, gone, irretrievable; incurable, terminal, deadly, fatal, lethal:
As their ship drifted into the intergalactic void, they saw that their situation was hopeless. They told me that her condition was hopeless
2 bad, poor, incompetent, inferior, inadequate, inept, unqualified, unfit, unskilful, deficient:
You might make a good surgeon, but as a judge of human nature you're hopeless
3 despairing, despondent, forlorn, woebegone, disconsolate, inconsolable, depressed, dejected, melancholy, downcast, gloomy, miserable, discouraged, wretched, lugubrious, funereal, sorrowful, sad, unhappy:
Utterly hopeless after his script was rejected by Hollywood, he moped in his room
4 futile, vain, bootless, unavailing, impossible, impracticable, unworkable, pointless, worthless, useless:
It would be hopeless to try to send out a lifeboat in this storm.
Collocation
1 giving no hope
VERBS
be, look, seem
ADV.
completely, quite, utterly
The situation seemed completely hopeless.
| apparently, seemingly
2 feeling no hope
VERBS
feel
She felt lonely and completely hopeless.
ADV.
completely | rather
3 very bad
VERBS
be
ADV.
absolutely | pretty
He's a pretty hopeless dancer.
PREP.
at
I'm absolutely hopeless at languages.
| with
I've always been hopeless with machinery.
Concise dictionary
'həʊplɪsadj.
+without hope because there seems to be no possibility of comfort or success
+of a person unable to do something skillfully
+certain to fail
+(informal to emphasize how bad it is) beyond hope of management or reform
