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US
/ˈhoʊpɫəsɫi/
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[ UK /hˈəʊpləsli/ ]
[ UK /hˈəʊpləsli/ ]
ADVERB
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in a dispirited manner without hope
the first Mozartian opera to be subjected to this curious treatment ran dispiritedly for five performances -
without hope; desperate because there seems no possibility of comfort or success
`I must die,' he said hopelessly
he hung his head hopelessly -
in a hopeless manner
he is hopelessly romantic
the papers were hopelessly jumbled
How To Use hopelessly In A Sentence
- And I feel hopelessly undereducated, with all the MAs around me.
- It is no more a sign of weakness to change leadership in wartime if success depends on it than it is to remove a baseball pitcher who is getting shelled in order to prevent the game from becoming hopelessly lost.
- What is tragically evident from the Harry Read Me file is the picture it gives of the CRU scientists hopelessly at sea with the complex computer programmes they had devised to contort their data in the approved direction, more than once expressing their own desperation at how difficult it was to get the desired results. Coyote Blog » 2009 » November
- This week, we got the clue about the French Protestants of the Reformed Tradition, and the one about St Paul's Letter to the Galatians, but got hopelessly stuck on the clue that simply said "discombobulated". Archive 2008-02-01
- From that moment, it was doomed to become a huge, sprawling, one-story conurbation, hopelessly dependent on the automobile.
- In their opening and closing games England's lumbering back four were hopelessly outmanoeuvred by bursts of fast, mobile, unpredictable attacks, like tankers anchored as speedboats darted around them.
- I was hopelessly out of my depth in college chemistry classes.
- At the bottom of Rover's long-term failure is a hopelessly crude conception of what constitutes enterprise and business success.
- My friend looked and walked like an exceedingly tall, lame ostrich with his legs hopelessly entangled in brightly colored cloth.
- The internal struggles of the group are hopelessly dramatised, reading off like the plot mechanisms that they are.