hopelessly
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3.7
- adverb
- /ˈhoʊpləsli/
:
irremediablemente
- I think we are all hopelessly flawed.
- hopelessly out of date
- hopelessly naive
- hopelessly inadequate
But as you have read, Muhammad's biography is hopelessly entwined with legend.
- But as you have read, Muhammad's biography is hopelessly entwined with legend.
- So I think we've got this hopelessly, catastrophically wrong.
- That sounds to me so vague that it is hopelessly immeasurable.
- But which side is getting it hopelessly wrong?
- And in some debates and discussions on capitalism, that word strikes me as being hopelessly lost to that understanding.
- AG wasn't thinking just about himself, his own guilt, his own love, his own arms flung hopelessly around his subjects.
Examples
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Workers lined up hopelessly outside factories looking for work, knowing full well that none was available.
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After trying multiple times, he realized he was hopelessly outmatched in the competition.
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And the breakthrough for me was to accept that I was hopelessly average and that that was still going to allow me to be successful.
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Our equipment is hopelessly inadequate.
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You're very likely to feel hopelessly lost.
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Yes, that was hopelessly naive, I knew.
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One is that both population growth and poverty are hopelessly intractable problems in developing countries.
Academic text (1998) -
Both the Arab League and the nonaligned movement were hopelessly divided and without resources to act.
Academic text (1991) -
For such a cynical man, you are hopelessly naive, Mason.
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Amy didn't miss the look and said, "I can see I'm hopelessly outnumbered."
Fiction book (1991)
Synonyms
6
5.8
In a sad, quiet way that shows someone is unhappy
3
4.8
In a gloomy way that makes people feel sad or hopeless
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4.1
In a sad way that shows no hope
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7.4
In a sad, lonely way as if left alone
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6.2
In a way that shows no hope or cheer
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8.1
In a very sad, ashamed, and helpless way
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6.5
In a sad, disappointed way
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6.1
In a way that shows no hope
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7.3
In a sad, hopeless way that shows you have lost hope
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8.5
In a very sad way that shows no comfort or hope
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7.5
In a way that shows great loneliness and sadness
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7.4
In a sad way that shows no hope
Antonyms
How Hopeful
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Hopelessly is built from hope + less + -ly, where hope means 'a wish for something good', less means 'without', and -ly turns it into a word that shows how something is done. So, hopelessly means 'without hope', which is why it describes doing or feeling something as if there is no chance.