hopelessly

B2 Topic:House & Home
US /ˈhoʊplɪsli/ UK /ˈhəʊplɪsli/
adv Freq #17558

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

Thesaurus

Synonyms
3 adv · without hope bleakly
4 adv · in a dispirited manner... dispiritedly

Etymology

From hopeless + -ly.

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