hopefully

Meanings

1. 1
   adv

   Used to say that you hope something will happen.

   Hopefully the weather will be fine on Sunday.

2. 2
   adv

   In a way that shows hope.

   She looked up hopefully when the door opened.

From hopeful + -ly. The use as a sentence adverb first gained currency in the United States and has been explained as a possible calque of German hoffentlich.

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