adjective

feeling or causing despair.

Jess looked at him in mute hopeless appeal

despairing,without hope,in despair,desperate,dejected,downhearted,despondent,demoralized,disconsolate,downcast,wretched,woebegone,forlorn,negative,pessimistic,defeatist,resigned,irremediable,beyond hope,lost,beyond remedy,beyond repair,beyond recovery,irreparable,irreversible,incorrigible,despaired of,past cure,incurable,grave,fatal,deadly,impossible,with no chance of success,useless,no-win,futile,unworkable,impracticable,pointless,vain,bootless,parlous