See hopeless on Wiktionary
{
"antonyms": [
{
"word": "hopeful"
}
],
"derived": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "hopelessly"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "hopelessness"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "hopeless romantic"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "hope",
"3": "-less"
},
"expansion": "hope + -less",
"name": "af"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "sv",
"2": "hopplös"
},
"expansion": "Swedish hopplös",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From hope + -less, compare Swedish hopplös.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "more hopeless",
"tags": [
"comparative"
]
},
{
"form": "most hopeless",
"tags": [
"superlative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "hopeless (comparative more hopeless, superlative most hopeless)",
"name": "en-adj"
}
],
"hyphenation": [
"hope‧less"
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "34 29 34 3",
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Emotions",
"orig": "en:Emotions",
"parents": [
"Mind",
"Human",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1613 (date written), William Shakespeare, [John Fletcher], “The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:",
"text": "I am a woman, friendless, hopeless.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1613–1614 (date written), John Fletcher, William Shak[e]speare, The Two Noble Kinsmen: […], London: […] Tho[mas] Cotes, for Iohn Waterson; […], published 1634, →OCLC, Act II, scene iii, page 31:",
"text": "And he a prince; To marry him is hopeleſſe;",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XV, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:",
"text": "Edward Churchill still attended to his work in a hopeless mechanical manner like a sleep-walker who walks safely on a well-known round. But his Roman collar galled him, his cossack stifled him, his biretta was as uncomfortable as a merry-andrew's cap and bells.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1966, James Workman, The Mad Emperor, Melbourne, Sydney: Scripts, page 41:",
"text": "A gaoler struck him, pushing him back in place in the hopeless, helpless line of prisoners.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Without hope; despairing; not expecting anything positive."
],
"id": "en-hopeless-en-adj-EHgwHHzL",
"links": [
[
"hope",
"hope"
]
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "61 32 5 2",
"code": "af",
"lang": "Afrikaans",
"sense": "destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing",
"word": "hopeloos"
},
{
"_dis1": "61 32 5 2",
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "anhuys",
"sense": "destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing",
"word": "անհույս"
},
{
"_dis1": "61 32 5 2",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "beznadežden",
"sense": "destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing",
"word": "безнадежден"
},
{
"_dis1": "61 32 5 2",
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing",
"word": "desesperat"
},
{
"_dis1": "61 32 5 2",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing",
"word": "沒有希望的"
},
{
"_dis1": "61 32 5 2",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "méiyǒu xīwàng de",
"sense": "destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing",
"word": "没有希望的"
},
{
"_dis1": "61 32 5 2",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing",
"word": "絕望的"
},
{
"_dis1": "61 32 5 2",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "juéwàng de",
"sense": "destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing",
"word": "绝望的"
},
{
"_dis1": "61 32 5 2",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing",
"word": "beznadějný"
},
{
"_dis1": "61 32 5 2",
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing",
"word": "håbløs"
},
{
"_dis1": "61 32 5 2",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing",
"word": "hopeloos"
},
{
"_dis1": "61 32 5 2",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing",
"word": "uitzichtloos"
},
{
"_dis1": "61 32 5 2",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing",
"word": "kansloos"
},
{
"_dis1": "61 32 5 2",
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing",
"word": "senespera"
},
{
"_dis1": "61 32 5 2",
"code": "fo",
"lang": "Faroese",
"sense": "destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing",
"word": "vónleysur"
},
{
"_dis1": "61 32 5 2",
"code": "fo",
"lang": "Faroese",
"sense": "destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing",
"word": "hopleysur"
},
{
"_dis1": "61 32 5 2",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing",
"word": "toivoton"
},
{
"_dis1": "61 32 5 2",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing",
"word": "désespéré"
},
{
"_dis1": "61 32 5 2",
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing",
"word": "desesperado"
},
{
"_dis1": "61 32 5 2",
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "uimedo",
"sense": "destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing",
"word": "უიმედო"
},
{
"_dis1": "61 32 5 2",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing",
"word": "hoffnungslos"
},
{
"_dis1": "61 32 5 2",
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "anélpidos",
"sense": "destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing",
"word": "ανέλπιδος"
},
{
"_dis1": "61 32 5 2",
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "anélpistos",
"sense": "destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing",
"word": "ἀνέλπιστος"
},
{
"_dis1": "61 32 5 2",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing",
"word": "reménytelen"
},
{
"_dis1": "61 32 5 2",
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing",
"word": "éadóchasach"
},
{
"_dis1": "61 32 5 2",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing",
"word": "disperato"
},
{
"_dis1": "61 32 5 2",
"alt": "ぜつぼうした",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "zetsubō shita",
"sense": "destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing",
"word": "絶望した"
},
{
"_dis1": "61 32 5 2",
"alt": "ぜつぼうてきな",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "zetsubōteki na",
"sense": "destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing",
"word": "絶望的な"
},
{
"_dis1": "61 32 5 2",
"code": "ckb",
"lang": "Central Kurdish",
"roman": "na umêd",
"sense": "destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing",
"word": "نا ئومێد"
},
{
"_dis1": "61 32 5 2",
"code": "kmr",
"lang": "Northern Kurdish",
"sense": "destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing",
"word": "bêhêvî"
},
{
"_dis1": "61 32 5 2",
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing",
"word": "desperatus"
},
{
"_dis1": "61 32 5 2",
"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing",
"word": "bezcerīgs"
},
{
"_dis1": "61 32 5 2",
"code": "lt",
"lang": "Lithuanian",
"sense": "destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing",
"word": "beviltiškas"
},
{
"_dis1": "61 32 5 2",
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "beznadežen",
"sense": "destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing",
"word": "безнадежен"
},
{
"_dis1": "61 32 5 2",
"code": "ms",
"lang": "Malay",
"sense": "destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing",
"word": "putus asa"
},
{
"_dis1": "61 32 5 2",
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing",
"word": "håpløs"
},
{
"_dis1": "61 32 5 2",
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing",
"word": "håplaus"
},
{
"_dis1": "61 32 5 2",
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing",
"word": "vonløs"
},
{
"_dis1": "61 32 5 2",
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing",
"word": "vonlaus"
},
{
"_dis1": "61 32 5 2",
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing",
"word": "vonlaus"
},
{
"_dis1": "61 32 5 2",
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing",
"word": "håplaus"
},
{
"_dis1": "61 32 5 2",
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "nâ-omid",
"sense": "destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing",
"word": "ناامید"
},
{
"_dis1": "61 32 5 2",
"code": "pdt",
"lang": "Plautdietsch",
"sense": "destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing",
"word": "hopnungslooss"
},
{
"_dis1": "61 32 5 2",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing",
"word": "beznadziejny"
},
{
"_dis1": "61 32 5 2",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing",
"word": "desesperado"
},
{
"_dis1": "61 32 5 2",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing",
"word": "desesperançado"
},
{
"_dis1": "61 32 5 2",
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing",
"word": "deznădăjduit"
},
{
"_dis1": "61 32 5 2",
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing",
"word": "disperat"
},
{
"_dis1": "61 32 5 2",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "beznadjóžnyj",
"sense": "destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing",
"word": "безнадёжный"
},
{
"_dis1": "61 32 5 2",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing",
"word": "desesperado"
},
{
"_dis1": "61 32 5 2",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing",
"word": "hopplös"
},
{
"_dis1": "61 32 5 2",
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing",
"word": "umutsuz"
},
{
"_dis1": "61 32 5 2",
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing",
"word": "ümitsiz"
},
{
"_dis1": "61 32 5 2",
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing",
"word": "nevmit"
},
{
"_dis1": "61 32 5 2",
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "beznadíjnyj",
"sense": "destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing",
"word": "безнаді́йний"
},
{
"_dis1": "61 32 5 2",
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing",
"word": "anobeithiol"
},
{
"_dis1": "61 32 5 2",
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing",
"word": "diobaith"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "34 29 34 3",
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Emotions",
"orig": "en:Emotions",
"parents": [
"Mind",
"Human",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "a hopeless cause",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Giving no ground of hope; promising nothing desirable; desperate."
],
"id": "en-hopeless-en-adj-Wg7jjhBi",
"links": [
[
"desperate",
"desperate"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "29 21 37 13",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "26 18 46 11",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English terms suffixed with -less",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "19 16 55 10",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Entries with translation boxes",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "19 12 61 8",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "12 10 70 8",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "24 21 38 16",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Afrikaans translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "7 6 79 8",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Ancient Greek translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "24 21 38 16",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Armenian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "19 15 54 12",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Bulgarian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "19 17 50 13",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Catalan translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "5 5 86 4",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Central Kurdish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "31 16 41 12",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Czech translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "13 11 68 9",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Danish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "16 14 62 8",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Dutch translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "12 10 70 7",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Esperanto translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "24 21 38 16",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Faroese translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "19 17 50 13",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Finnish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "18 13 64 6",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with French translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "19 17 50 13",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Galician translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "18 16 53 12",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Georgian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "15 13 56 15",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with German translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "17 13 62 8",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Greek translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "24 20 39 16",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Hungarian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "20 17 50 13",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Irish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "12 10 70 7",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Italian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "12 10 70 7",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Japanese translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "12 10 70 7",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Latin translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "24 21 38 16",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Latvian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "24 21 38 16",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Lithuanian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "26 22 37 16",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Macedonian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "24 21 38 16",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Malay translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "16 10 50 23",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Mandarin translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "8 7 80 5",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Northern Kurdish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "8 7 81 5",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Norwegian Nynorsk translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "19 17 50 13",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Norwegian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "24 21 38 16",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Persian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "4 4 89 3",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Plautdietsch translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "20 14 37 28",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Polish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "24 21 39 16",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Portuguese translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "19 17 50 13",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Romanian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "12 10 70 7",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Russian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "11 9 76 4",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Spanish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "19 17 51 12",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Swedish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "19 17 51 12",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Turkish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "19 17 50 13",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Ukrainian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "16 13 64 6",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Welsh translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "34 29 34 3",
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Emotions",
"orig": "en:Emotions",
"parents": [
"Mind",
"Human",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "He's a hopeless writer, but can draw very well.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:",
"text": "\" It is a pure waste of time.\" \"Not at all,\" Malone answered. \"It has ventilated an evil. There were reporters in court. Surely some of them have some sense. They will note the injustice.\" \"Not they,\" said Mailey. \"The Press is hopeless. My God, what a responsibility these people take on themselves, and how little they guess the price that each will pay! I know.\"",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Without talent, not skilled."
],
"id": "en-hopeless-en-adj-h-qlWq6k",
"links": [
[
"talent",
"talent"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"text": "She is a hopeless romantic.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"text": "He is a hopeless idler.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Incurable."
],
"id": "en-hopeless-en-adj-xLXIitsZ",
"links": [
[
"Incurable",
"incurable"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(of an adverse condition) Incurable."
],
"raw_tags": [
"of an adverse condition"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈhəʊplɪs/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈhoʊplɪs/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"audio": "en-us-hopeless.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/9/9c/En-us-hopeless.ogg/En-us-hopeless.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9c/En-us-hopeless.ogg"
},
{
"rhymes": "-əʊplɪs"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "desperate"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "unhopeful"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
"word": "forlorn"
}
],
"word": "hopeless"
}
{
"antonyms": [
{
"word": "hopeful"
}
],
"categories": [
"English adjectives",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English terms suffixed with -less",
"Entries with translation boxes",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"Rhymes:English/əʊplɪs",
"Rhymes:English/əʊplɪs/2 syllables",
"Terms with Afrikaans translations",
"Terms with Ancient Greek translations",
"Terms with Armenian translations",
"Terms with Bulgarian translations",
"Terms with Catalan translations",
"Terms with Central Kurdish translations",
"Terms with Czech translations",
"Terms with Danish translations",
"Terms with Dutch translations",
"Terms with Esperanto translations",
"Terms with Faroese translations",
"Terms with Finnish translations",
"Terms with French translations",
"Terms with Galician translations",
"Terms with Georgian translations",
"Terms with German translations",
"Terms with Greek translations",
"Terms with Hungarian translations",
"Terms with Irish translations",
"Terms with Italian translations",
"Terms with Japanese translations",
"Terms with Latin translations",
"Terms with Latvian translations",
"Terms with Lithuanian translations",
"Terms with Macedonian translations",
"Terms with Malay translations",
"Terms with Mandarin translations",
"Terms with Northern Kurdish translations",
"Terms with Norwegian Nynorsk translations",
"Terms with Norwegian translations",
"Terms with Persian translations",
"Terms with Plautdietsch translations",
"Terms with Polish translations",
"Terms with Portuguese translations",
"Terms with Romanian translations",
"Terms with Russian translations",
"Terms with Spanish translations",
"Terms with Swedish translations",
"Terms with Turkish translations",
"Terms with Ukrainian translations",
"Terms with Welsh translations",
"en:Emotions"
],
"derived": [
{
"word": "hopelessly"
},
{
"word": "hopelessness"
},
{
"word": "hopeless romantic"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "hope",
"3": "-less"
},
"expansion": "hope + -less",
"name": "af"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "sv",
"2": "hopplös"
},
"expansion": "Swedish hopplös",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From hope + -less, compare Swedish hopplös.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "more hopeless",
"tags": [
"comparative"
]
},
{
"form": "most hopeless",
"tags": [
"superlative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "hopeless (comparative more hopeless, superlative most hopeless)",
"name": "en-adj"
}
],
"hyphenation": [
"hope‧less"
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1613 (date written), William Shakespeare, [John Fletcher], “The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:",
"text": "I am a woman, friendless, hopeless.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1613–1614 (date written), John Fletcher, William Shak[e]speare, The Two Noble Kinsmen: […], London: […] Tho[mas] Cotes, for Iohn Waterson; […], published 1634, →OCLC, Act II, scene iii, page 31:",
"text": "And he a prince; To marry him is hopeleſſe;",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XV, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:",
"text": "Edward Churchill still attended to his work in a hopeless mechanical manner like a sleep-walker who walks safely on a well-known round. But his Roman collar galled him, his cossack stifled him, his biretta was as uncomfortable as a merry-andrew's cap and bells.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1966, James Workman, The Mad Emperor, Melbourne, Sydney: Scripts, page 41:",
"text": "A gaoler struck him, pushing him back in place in the hopeless, helpless line of prisoners.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Without hope; despairing; not expecting anything positive."
],
"links": [
[
"hope",
"hope"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "a hopeless cause",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Giving no ground of hope; promising nothing desirable; desperate."
],
"links": [
[
"desperate",
"desperate"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"English terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "He's a hopeless writer, but can draw very well.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:",
"text": "\" It is a pure waste of time.\" \"Not at all,\" Malone answered. \"It has ventilated an evil. There were reporters in court. Surely some of them have some sense. They will note the injustice.\" \"Not they,\" said Mailey. \"The Press is hopeless. My God, what a responsibility these people take on themselves, and how little they guess the price that each will pay! I know.\"",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Without talent, not skilled."
],
"links": [
[
"talent",
"talent"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "She is a hopeless romantic.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"text": "He is a hopeless idler.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Incurable."
],
"links": [
[
"Incurable",
"incurable"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(of an adverse condition) Incurable."
],
"raw_tags": [
"of an adverse condition"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈhəʊplɪs/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈhoʊplɪs/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"audio": "en-us-hopeless.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/9/9c/En-us-hopeless.ogg/En-us-hopeless.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9c/En-us-hopeless.ogg"
},
{
"rhymes": "-əʊplɪs"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "desperate"
},
{
"word": "unhopeful"
},
{
"word": "forlorn"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "af",
"lang": "Afrikaans",
"sense": "destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing",
"word": "hopeloos"
},
{
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "anhuys",
"sense": "destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing",
"word": "անհույս"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "beznadežden",
"sense": "destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing",
"word": "безнадежден"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing",
"word": "desesperat"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing",
"word": "沒有希望的"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "méiyǒu xīwàng de",
"sense": "destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing",
"word": "没有希望的"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing",
"word": "絕望的"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "juéwàng de",
"sense": "destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing",
"word": "绝望的"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing",
"word": "beznadějný"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing",
"word": "håbløs"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing",
"word": "hopeloos"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing",
"word": "uitzichtloos"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing",
"word": "kansloos"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing",
"word": "senespera"
},
{
"code": "fo",
"lang": "Faroese",
"sense": "destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing",
"word": "vónleysur"
},
{
"code": "fo",
"lang": "Faroese",
"sense": "destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing",
"word": "hopleysur"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing",
"word": "toivoton"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing",
"word": "désespéré"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing",
"word": "desesperado"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "uimedo",
"sense": "destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing",
"word": "უიმედო"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing",
"word": "hoffnungslos"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "anélpidos",
"sense": "destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing",
"word": "ανέλπιδος"
},
{
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "anélpistos",
"sense": "destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing",
"word": "ἀνέλπιστος"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing",
"word": "reménytelen"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing",
"word": "éadóchasach"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing",
"word": "disperato"
},
{
"alt": "ぜつぼうした",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "zetsubō shita",
"sense": "destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing",
"word": "絶望した"
},
{
"alt": "ぜつぼうてきな",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "zetsubōteki na",
"sense": "destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing",
"word": "絶望的な"
},
{
"code": "ckb",
"lang": "Central Kurdish",
"roman": "na umêd",
"sense": "destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing",
"word": "نا ئومێد"
},
{
"code": "kmr",
"lang": "Northern Kurdish",
"sense": "destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing",
"word": "bêhêvî"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing",
"word": "desperatus"
},
{
"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing",
"word": "bezcerīgs"
},
{
"code": "lt",
"lang": "Lithuanian",
"sense": "destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing",
"word": "beviltiškas"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "beznadežen",
"sense": "destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing",
"word": "безнадежен"
},
{
"code": "ms",
"lang": "Malay",
"sense": "destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing",
"word": "putus asa"
},
{
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing",
"word": "håpløs"
},
{
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing",
"word": "håplaus"
},
{
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing",
"word": "vonløs"
},
{
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing",
"word": "vonlaus"
},
{
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing",
"word": "vonlaus"
},
{
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing",
"word": "håplaus"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "nâ-omid",
"sense": "destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing",
"word": "ناامید"
},
{
"code": "pdt",
"lang": "Plautdietsch",
"sense": "destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing",
"word": "hopnungslooss"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing",
"word": "beznadziejny"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing",
"word": "desesperado"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing",
"word": "desesperançado"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing",
"word": "deznădăjduit"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing",
"word": "disperat"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "beznadjóžnyj",
"sense": "destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing",
"word": "безнадёжный"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing",
"word": "desesperado"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing",
"word": "hopplös"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing",
"word": "umutsuz"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing",
"word": "ümitsiz"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing",
"word": "nevmit"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "beznadíjnyj",
"sense": "destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing",
"word": "безнаді́йний"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing",
"word": "anobeithiol"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing",
"word": "diobaith"
}
],
"word": "hopeless"
}
Download raw JSONL data for hopeless meaning in All languages combined (13.7kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-28 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-11-21 using wiktextract (65a6e81 and 0dbea76). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.