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{
"term": "hopeless",
"partOfSpeech": "adjective",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "if something is hopeless, there is no hope that it will get better or succeed",
"cefr": "b2",
"examples": [
{
"text": "a hopeless situation"
},
{
"text": "**It's hopeless** trying to convince her."
},
{
"text": "We won't bother to appeal—it's **a hopeless case**."
},
{
"text": "He felt that his life was a hopeless mess."
},
{
"text": "The situation seemed completely hopeless."
},
{
"text": "The situation seems increasingly hopeless."
},
{
"text": "He wanted to warn her how hopeless her case was."
},
{
"text": "There were some things it was hopeless to discuss with him."
},
{
"text": "Winning the title is out of the question now—it's a hopeless cause."
}
],
"topics": ["Difficulty and failure"],
"collocations": {
"verbs": ["be", "look", "seem"],
"adverb": ["absolutely", "completely", "pretty"],
"preposition": ["at", "with"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "extremely bad",
"labels": "(British English, informal)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "The buses are absolutely hopeless these days!"
}
],
"synonyms": "terrible",
"collocations": {
"verbs": ["be", "look", "seem"],
"adverb": ["absolutely", "completely", "pretty"],
"preposition": ["at", "with"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "very bad (at something); with no ability or skill",
"sensetop": "hopeless at somethinghopeless with something",
"labels": "(especially British English)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "He's an absolutely hopeless driver."
},
{
"text": "I'm hopeless at science.",
"contextForm": "hopeless at something"
},
{
"text": "I've always been hopeless with machinery.",
"contextForm": "hopeless with something"
}
],
"synonyms": "terrible",
"collocations": {
"verbs": ["be", "look", "seem"],
"adverb": ["absolutely", "completely", "pretty"],
"preposition": ["at", "with"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 4,
"definition": "feeling or showing no hope",
"examples": [
{
"text": "She felt lonely and hopeless."
},
{
"text": "She felt lonely and completely hopeless."
},
{
"text": "With a hopeless shrug of resignation, he turned back."
}
],
"collocations": {
"verbs": ["be", "look", "seem"],
"adverb": ["absolutely", "completely", "pretty"],
"preposition": ["at", "with"]
}
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈhəʊpləs/",
"audio": "ho/hopeless/hopeless__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈhəʊpləs/",
"audio": "ho/hopeless/hopeless__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": null
}