hopelessly

Meanings

1. 1
   adv

   in a hopeless manner

   The papers were hopelessly jumbled.

2. 2
   adv

   In a manner showing no hope

   The whole covey of victims was thus netted; the household ruin was thus full and orbicular; and in that proportion the tendency of men and women, flutter as they might, would be helplessly and hopelessly to sink into the all-conquering hands of the mighty murderer.

3. 3
   adv

   without hope

4. 4
   adv

   in a dispirited manner without hope

Appears in

From hopeless + -ly.

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