Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Hopeless

Hopeless , adjective

1.
Destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing.
I am a woman, friendless, hopeless. — Shakespeare
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. — Shakespeare
3.
Unhoped for; despaired of. [Obsolete] — Marston