How to pronounce hopeless

Listen to hopeless in real sentences, spoken by real people in public video clips that play here, on YouTongue. No dictionary recording — the word as it is actually used.

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“hopeless” in real sentences

842 clips in the index · 71 American · 136 British · 9 Australian · 1 New Zealand. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.

  1. was hopeless at skiing, absolutely hopeless.

    The Royal Society · hear it here

  2. Greenwich Connecticut hopeless

    Intelligence Squared · hear it here

  3. window, "feeling hopeless?"

    NIH · hear it here

  4. quite hopeless at baking.

    The Scottish Parliament · hear it here

Why real speech

A dictionary gives you one careful reading of hopeless. Conversation gives you the stress, the vowel reduction and the speed that people actually use — and they differ between accents. YouTongue plays the surrounding sentence, so you hear the word in the rhythm it belongs to.

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