Adjective

(-)

Not having a remedy; not capable of being remedied.

*1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , V.11:

*:I driven am to great distresse, / And forced to forgoe th'attempt remedilesse .

*, II.12:

*:As for the rest, this disease is not so easily discovered, except it be altogether extreame and remedilesse ; forasmuch as reason marcheth ever crooked, halting and broken-hipt; and with falshood as with truth; and therefore it is very hard to discover her mistaking and disorder.

Adjective

(en adjective)

Without hope; despairing; not expecting anything positive.

* (William Shakespeare)

I am a woman, friendless, hopeless .

*, chapter=15

, title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=Edward Churchill still attended to his work in a hopeless mechanical manner like a sleep-walker who walks safely on a well-known round. But his Roman collar galled him, his cossack stifled him, his biretta was as uncomfortable as a merry-andrew's cap and bells.}}

Giving no ground of hope; promising nothing desirable; desperate.

Without talent, not skilled

He's a hopeless writer, but can draw very well.