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say it: HOH-pluh-slee
hopelessly is an adverb meaning "in a hopeless manner". It is pronounced /ˈhoʊpləsli/ — HOH-pluh-slee. It carries 3 recorded senses.
in a hopeless manner
“the papers were hopelessly jumbled”
“he is hopelessly romantic”
colloquialism
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
“he hung his head hopelessly”
“`I must die,' he said hopelessly”
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for hopelessly come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.