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Definition of Hopelessly

1. Adverb. In a hopeless manner. "He is hopelessly romantic"

2. Adverb. In a dispirited manner without hope. "The first Mozartian opera to be subjected to this curious treatment ran dispiritedly for five performances"

3. Adverb. Without hope; desperate because there seems no possibility of comfort or success. "`I must die,' he said hopelessly"

Definition of Hopelessly

1. Adverb. In a manner showing no hope ¹

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Definition of Hopelessly

1. [adv]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hopelessly

hope chest hope chests hoped hoped-for hoped for hopeful hopefull hopefuller hopefullest hopefully

hopefulness hopefulnesses hopefuls hopeite hopeless hopelessly (current term) hopelessness hopelessnesses hopene hoper

hopers hopes hopest hopeth hophead hopheads hopin' hoping hopingly hopings

Literary usage of Hopelessly

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Essays and Essay-writing: Based on Atlantic Monthly Models by William Maddux Tanner (1918)
"Among other things, we are beginning to feel the necessity of erecting a few asylums for the hopelessly sane. The progress, if not the actual safety, ..."

2. The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind by Herbert George Wells (1922)
"... whereas this war after fifty years of militarism was a hopelessly professional war; from first to last it was impossible to get it out of the hands of ..."

3. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1903)
"... or (4) made a general assignment for the benefit of his creditors ; or (5J admitted In writing hli Inability to pay hopelessly insolvent, ..."

4. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"An attempt to re- ВД* the controversy by an attack upon Professor George Adam Smith in 1902 hopelessly collapsed. On the other hand, the passing of the ..."

5. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1888)
"... that his property was mortgaged, etc. ; that O'Neal was hopelessly insolvent when he delivered said cattle to Daw- son, and after said delivery owned no ..."

6. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by H.W. Wilson Company (1909)
"Is modern Germany hopelessly decadent? R. of Rs. 39: 110-1. Ja. '09. March of the Germans. F: Palmer. 11. Collier's. 43: 13. Jl. 10, '09. ..."

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