hopeless vs discouraging

hopeless and discouraging both are adjectives.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
hopeless	No	Yes	No	No
discouraging	No	Yes	No	No

hopeless (adjective)	discouraging (adjective)
without hope because there seems to be no possibility of comfort or success	depriving of confidence or hope or enthusiasm and hence often deterring action
(informal to emphasize how bad it is) beyond hope of management or reform	expressing disapproval in order to dissuade
certain to fail
of a person unable to do something skillfully