Hopeless vs Incapable - What's the difference?
hopeless | incapable |
Without hope; despairing; not expecting anything positive.
* (William Shakespeare)
*, chapter=15
, title= Giving no ground of hope; promising nothing desirable; desperate.
Without talent, not skilled
Not capable (of doing something); unable.
Not in a state to receive; not receptive; not susceptible; not able to admit.
(dated) One who is morally or mentally weak or inefficient; an imbecile; a simpleton.
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As adjectives the difference between hopeless and incapable
is that hopeless is without hope; despairing; not expecting anything positive while incapable is not capable (of doing something); unable.As a noun incapable is
one who is morally or mentally weak or inefficient; an imbecile; a simpleton.hopeless
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- I am a woman, friendless, hopeless .
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.}}
- He's a hopeless writer, but can draw very well.
Usage notes
* Nouns to which "hopeless" is often applied: case, situation, romantic, love, cause, person, despair, life, undertaking, alcoholic, man, endeavor, place, pain, agony, project.Synonyms
* desperateAntonyms
* hopefulReferences
* * *incapable
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- A pint glass is incapable of holding more than a pint of liquid.
- I consider him incapable of dishonesty.
- incapable''' of pain, or pleasure; '''incapable of stain or injury