hopeless adj

1 without hope because there seems to be no possibility of comfort or success; "in an agony of hopeless grief"; "with a hopeless sigh he sat down" [ant: hopeful]

2 of a person unable to do something skillfully; "I'm hopeless at mathematics"

3 certain to fail; "the situation is hopeless"

4 (informal to emphasize how bad it is) beyond hope of management or reform; "she handed me a hopeless jumble of papers"; "he is a hopeless romantic"

English

Etymology

Pronunciation

Adjective

1. Destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing.

   I am a woman, friendless, hopeless. -Shakspeare.

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

   A hopeless cause.

Translations

• Czech: beznadějný
• Dutch: hopeloos
• Finnish: toivoton (1-3)
• German: hoffnungslos (1-3)
• Kurdish:
• Persian: (na-omid)
• Russian: безнадежный (beznadéžnyj)
• Swedish: hopplös (1-3)
• Spanish: desesperado

References

Hopeless Records is an independent record label located in Van Nuys, Los Angeles, California. The label was started in 1993 by Louis Posen and financed by a group of private investors. Hopeless's artists are generally considered punk rock/pop punk, emo, or alternative rock.

The label's "charitable arm," Sub City Records, participates in a number of benefit tours such as the Take Action Tour. Each year Hopeless/Sub City releases a benefit compilation Take Action! which is a multidisc compilation of punk and other independent bands. The CD release usually coincides with the annual Take Action Tour.

Hopeless also owns downloadpunk.com, a music downloading site that offers songs and albums in DRM-free, 192 kbit/s MP3 format.

Artists

Current artists

• Against All Authority
• All Time Low
• Amber Pacific
• Kaddisfly
• Mustard Plug
• Nural
• Samiam
• The Human Abstract
• The Dangerous Summer
• There For Tomorrow
• Ever We Fall
• Selby Tigers

Former artists

• 88 Fingers Louie
• Atom And His Package
• Avenged Sevenfold (2001 - 2004; Left for Warner Bros. Records)
• Break The Silence
• Common Rider
• Digger
• Dillinger Four
• Heckle (1997)
• Falling Sickness
• Fifteen
• Funeral Oration
• Guttermouth
• Jeff Ott
• Mêlée (Sub City, Left for Warner Bros. Records)
• The Queers
• Royden
• Scared Of Chaka
• The Story So Far
• Thrice (Sub City, 2001 - 2003; Left for Island Records, then Vagrant Records)
• The Weakerthans

Compilations/Samplers

• Hopelessly Devoted To You Vol. 1
• Hopelessly Devoted To You Vol. 2
• Hopelessly Devoted To You Vol. 3
• Hopelessly Devoted To You Vol. 4
• Hopelessly Devoted To You Vol. 5
• Hopelessly Devoted To You Vol. 6
• Take Action! Vol. 1
• Take Action! Vol. 2
• Take Action! Vol. 3
• Take Action! Vol. 4
• Take Action! Vol. 5
• Take Action! Vol. 6
• Take Action! Vol. 7 - March 4, 2008

See also

• List of record labels

External links

• Official site

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