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• Ruth's overwhelming sweetness made Robert forget about his hopelessly low school grades.From the entry sweetness
• These roads are hopelessly jammed with cars and mobile homes during holidays.From the entry jammed
• He's hopelessly oblivious, always forgetting his appointments.From the entry oblivious
• John was so bullheaded that he kept driving and refused to stop for directions, even after getting hopelessly lost.From the entry bullheaded
• I could see the headmaster bearing down on me, and looked hopelessly round for a means of escape.From the entry bear down on
• Henrietta's feelings for Delbert run hot and cold—one minute she's hopelessly in love with him, and the next she can't stand the sight of him.From the entry run hot and cold
• We have become hopelessly entangled in our ability to express ourselves clearly over fundamental matters of biology.2022 June 1, Harvey Fewings, “Generational Change: Fundamental to the Human Story”, in The LOCAL News, number 7, page 8, columns 3–4. From the entry Generation Zedder
• The conjoined pawns, an impenetrable knot, begin to roll queenward, leaving Black hopelessly uncoordinated.2012, Cyrus Lakdawala, “Kramnik on Defence”, in Kramnik: Move by Move, Everyman Chess, game 20 (V.Kramnik-L.Aronian, Zürich Chess…. From the entry queenward
• Parents operate in a culture where views on teenagers and substances are hopelessly polarised.2002 January 15, Ros Coward, “The trouble with Harry”, in The Guardian. From the entry rite de passage
• This latter was a nice teacherese way of saying that Alex was hopelessly uncoordinated.1997, Frank Deford, Alex: the life of a child. From the entry teacherese
• As always, she was vibrant, giving, funloving, but the political content was diminished and hopelessly subtle.1981 December 5, Cindy Rizzo, “Meg: A Warrior at Rest”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 20, page 7. From the entry fun-loving
• This does not mean that he is vain; it only means that he is hopelessly self-absorbed.1959, Leo Rosten, The return of H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P*L*A*N. From the entry vain
• I hate you when your being hopelessly super-male and retiscent (sp.?).1955, J. D. Salinger, “Franny”, in Franny and Zooey, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, published 1991, →ISBN, page 5. From the entry supermale
• All of this agitation before the Furor Teutonicus is hopelessly childish.1915, L[ouis] P[ope] Gratacap, “Germanization”, in Europe’s Handicap—Tribe and Class, New York, N.Y.: Thomas Benton, page 303. From the entry propagandum
• We may think that the Dunning Kruger bias could not possibly apply to us because we can't really be hopelessly incompetent.2020 May 24, Phillip T. Erickson, Cognitive Behavior: This Book Includes: Cognitive Dissonance Theory, Mental Models, Critical Thinking…. From the entry Dunning-Kruger bias
• Resistance to online culture is not about “sounding hopelessly old”, but about shaping a future beyond the stupidification of technocapitalism.2019 December 25, Jeff Wallace, “Letters: On reflection: don’t play it loud”, in The Guardian, →ISSN. From the entry technocapitalism
• Oh, I knew you'd be here, you hopelessly romantic Cassmancer.2015 April 1, TheSteggie, Reddit. From the entry Cassmancer
• We fear that if we don't partake in every Saturday night's fever, something truly amazing will happen, leaving us hopelessly behind."2013, Daniel Reimold, Journalism of Ideas: Brainstorming, Developing, and Selling Stories in the Digital Age, Routledge, published 2013…. From the entry FOMO
• Linux file system hopelessly corrupted and unfsckable.2006 April 26, BrianM, “Knoppix is Kneat”, in nz.comp (Usenet). From the entry unfsckable
• I am wildly, hopelessly and quite unclerically crazy about you!1930, Agatha Christie, The Murder at the Vicarage. From the entry unclerically
• Indeed, it seemed that the army was hopelessly banjaxed.1928, Eimar O'Duffy, The Spacious Adventures of the Man in the Street, Macmillan, page 370. From the entry banjax
• This is the absolutest thing, the most entirely on its own, the most hopelessly free from possibility of subjection".1925, John MacCaig Thorburn, Art and the Unconscious: A Psychological Approach to a Problem of Philosophy, page 116. From the entry absolutest
• Limpet said the effect of this method was to give "Vibration," an explanation which left the curate hopelessly befogged.1913, Norman Lindsay, A Curate in Bohemia, Sydney: N.S.W. Bookstall Co., published 1932, page 75. From the entry befogged
• His befuddled brain was hopelessly attacking the problem of the future maintenance of himself and his favourite follies.1910, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “A Blackjack Bargainer”, in Whirligigs. From the entry befuddled
• Yet these precedents offer no more than a slender reed for Gordon Brown, almost hopelessly down in the polls, to cling to.2009 September 28, Jeremy Warner, “Governments can survive recessions, but not in this case”, in Telegraph, UK, retrieved 17 Aug 2015. From the entry slender reed
• His virtual, fleshless relationships were the domain of the ultranerdy, the hopelessly introverted and socially maladjusted, especially in the absence of real relationships.2008, Benjamin Parzybok, Couch, Small Beer Press, →ISBN, page 28. From the entry ultranerdy
• You are hopelessly prudish and passe.1995, Merete Leonhardt-Lupa, “A Mother's Sexuality”, in A Mother Is Born: Preparing for Motherhood During Pregnancy, Westport, Conn.…. From the entry madonnalike
• In such cases even a four-to-one multiplying reel is much too slow to pick up the slack, and a single-action fly reel is hopelessly inadequate.1946, Horace G. Tapply, Tackle Tinkering, page 208. From the entry pick up the slack
• The Resurrection narratives are hopelessly confused on the supposition that they described the activities of a dead man restored to life again.1940, Edwin Lewis, “The Church and Revelation”, in A Philosophy of the Christian Revelation, 1st edition (Religion), Harper & Brothers…. From the entry resurrection
• The team stuck fast in the black muck, and every effort to extricate them served only to imbed them more hopelessly in the sticky gumbo.1909, Ralph Connor, chapter 11, in The Foreigner. From the entry gumbo
• As a rule novelists who treat of these people have a bad habit of making them out to be hopelessly idiotic or unlikelily vicious.1908, The Academy, page 909. From the entry unlikelily
• However, no morphologist would argue that there is not a difference in degree of noncompositionality between that of goal kick and that of the hopelessly unparseable understand.2018, John McWhorter, The Creole Debate, Cambridge, page 25. From the entry noncompositionality
• The 'opposition' is surely right to speak of 'end-works' in this connection – if only its own products were not so hopelessly unengaging and devoid of comedy.2014, Theodor W. Adorno, Thomas Mann, Correspondence 1943-1955. From the entry endwork
• She'd always been stuck with naturally curly hair, but now the loose springy curls were doing whatever they wanted.To her, it was starting to look hopelessly floofy.2012, Jennifer Greene, Rock Solid, →ISBN. From the entry floofy
• But Gyan missed the best openings, shooting into the side-netting after showing good strength when chasing a long pass, and then hopelessly miskicking from six yards out.2010 December 28, Owen Phillips, “Sunderland 0 - 2 Blackpool”, in BBC Sport, archived from the original on 19 Mar 2023. From the entry side-netting
• Just when you're ready to dismiss the main character, Theodorous Melville, as simply another hopelessly vanillafied brother, debut writer and director Kwyn Bader ups the comedic ante.2007, Esther Iverem, We Gotta Have It: Twenty Years of Seeing Black at the Movies, 1986-2006, Thunder's Mouth Press, →ISBN, page 243. From the entry vanillafied
• Music snobs amuse themselves by laughing at a colleague's collection of showtunes, or the hopelessly pretentious jazz of the goatee-ed guy at the other end of the dorm.2005 November 2, Leander Kahney, “The Cult of iPod”, in Playlist. From the entry playlistism
• What hours have I paced those platforms, endlessly, hopelessly, where the draughts of Siberia and the solstice heats of Ecuador focus their unscrupling rigours on the eructated passenger.1928, Robert Byron, “Frankfort”, in The Station: Athos: Treasures and Men, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A[braham] Knopf…. From the entry eructate

Meaning of hopelessly

1. adverb In a manner showing no hope.

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Questions about hopelessly in a sentence

How do you use hopelessly in a sentence?

Hopelessly is used as an adverb. For example: “Ruth's overwhelming sweetness made Robert forget about his hopelessly low school grades.”

What is a short sentence with hopelessly?

“You are hopelessly prudish and passe.”

What does hopelessly mean?

Hopelessly means in a manner showing no hope.