{
    "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
}