English-Spanish translations for hopeless

• desesperado
  En otras palabras: «pobre, enfermo, desempleado, desesperado», en estos países un estado a menudo conduce a otro. As one might put it: ‘poor, sick, unemployed, hopeless’ – in these countries the one state often leads to the other.
  El desempleo, en especial el juvenil, sigue siendo demasiado elevado y provoca flujos migratorios desesperados. Unemployment, particularly among young people, is still too high and results in hopeless migration flows.
  Pienso que podemos decir sin ninguna pretensión que, sin la Unión Europea, es de temer que esta Cumbre se habría saldado con un fracaso desesperado. I think we can say without any conceit that without the European Union that summit might well have ended in hopeless failure.

Definition of hopeless

• Without hope; despairing; not expecting anything positive
• Giving no ground of hope; promising nothing desirable; desperate
• Without talent, not skilled
• Incurable

Examples

• a hopeless cause
• Hes a hopeless writer, but can draw very well.
• She is a hopeless romantic.
• He is a hopeless idler.

Related words

• hopelessly
• hopelessness
• benthopelagic