Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Hopeless \Hope"less\, a.
   1. Destitute of hope; having no expectation of good;
      despairing.

            I am a woman, friendless, hopeless.   --Shak.

   2. Giving no ground of hope; promising nothing desirable;
      desperate; as, a hopeless cause.

            The hopelessword of ``never to return'' Breathe I
            against thee, upon pain of life.      --Shak.

   3. Unhoped for; despaired of. [Obs.] --Marston. --
      {Hope"less*ly}, adv. -- {Hope"less*ness}, n.

Source : WordNet®

hopeless
     adj 1: without hope because there seems to be no possibility of
            comfort or success; "in an agony of hopeless grief";
            "with a hopeless sigh he sat down" [ant: {hopeful}]
     2: of a person unable to do something skillfully; "I'm hopeless
        at mathematics"
     3: certain to fail; "the situation is hopeless"
     4: (informal to emphasize how bad it is) beyond hope of
        management or reform; "she handed me a hopeless jumble of
        papers"; "he is a hopeless romantic"