Definitions of hopeless:

• adjective:   without hope because there seems to be no possibility of comfort or success

  Example: "In an agony of hopeless grief"

• adjective:   certain to fail

  Example: "The situation is hopeless"

• adjective:   of a person unable to do something skillfully

  Example: "I'm hopeless at mathematics"

• adjective:   (informal to emphasize how bad it is) beyond hope of management or reform

  Example: "She handed me a hopeless jumble of papers"