Adding the letters -less to a noun will turn the word into an adjective. Hope is a noun. Hopeless is an adjective.
Here are some other nouns that become adjectives when you add the suffix -less:
time – timeless
sense – senseless
bottom – bottomless
care – careless
home – homeless
Add the suffix -less to certain nouns to make them into adjectives.
It’s your turn. Add –less to one of the words in the first sentence and write the new word into the blank of the second sentence. This lost dog has no home. The dog is ________.