Usually means: Despairingly, without any chance or possibility.
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  1. hopelessly: Merriam-Webster
  2. hopelessly: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hopelessly: Collins English Dictionary
  4. hopelessly: Vocabulary.com
  5. Hopelessly, hopelessly: Wordnik
  6. hopelessly: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. hopelessly: Wiktionary
  8. hopelessly: Dictionary.com
  9. hopelessly: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Hopelessly: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. hopelessly: Rhymezone
  12. hopelessly: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. hopelessly: FreeDictionary.org
  14. hopelessly: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. hopelessly: TheFreeDictionary.com
  16. hopelessly: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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▸ adverb:  In a manner showing no hope

Similar:
dispiritedly, unhopefully, despairingly, despairfully, haplessly, forlornly, disconsolately, fruitlessly, hopingly, forsakenly, more...

Opposite:
hopeful, hopefulness

Types:
inextricably, irremediably, irrevocably, permanently, more...

Phrases:
hopelessly lost, Hopelessly Devoted to You, hopelessly in love, hopelessly chaotic, more...

Colors:
    gray,     black,     charcoal,     taupe,     mauve, more...



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Similar:
dispiritedly, unhopefully, despairingly, despairfully, haplessly, forlornly, disconsolately, fruitlessly, hopingly, forsakenly, more...

Opposite:
hopeful, hopefulness

Types:
inextricably, irremediably, irrevocably, permanently, more...

Phrases:
hopelessly lost, Hopelessly Devoted to You, hopelessly in love, hopelessly chaotic, more...

Colors:
    gray,     black,     charcoal,     taupe,     mauve, more...



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