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English Dictionary: hopelessly	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for hopelessly
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
hopelessly adv in a hopeless manner; "the papers were hopelessly jumbled"; "he is hopelessly romantic" in a dispirited manner without hope; "the first Mozartian opera to be subjected to this curious treatment ran dispiritedly for five performances" Synonym(s): dispiritedly, hopelessly without hope; desperate because there seems no possibility of comfort or success; "he hung his head hopelessly"; "`I must die,' he said hopelessly" Antonym(s): hopefully
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Hopeless \Hope"less\, a. 1. Destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing. I am a woman, friendless, hopeless. --Shak. 2. Giving no ground of hope; promising nothing desirable; desperate; as, a hopeless cause. The hopelessword of [bd]never to return[b8] Breathe I against thee, upon pain of life. --Shak. 3. Unhoped for; despaired of. [Obs.] --Marston. -- {Hope"lessly}, adv. -- {Hope"lessness}, n.