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词汇 hopelessly
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Definition of hopelessly in English:

hopelessly

adverb ˈhəʊpləsliˈhoʊpləsli
  • 1In a way that shows or causes despair.

    she sighed hopelessly
    Example sentencesExamples
    • I was caught hopelessly between the present and the past; an inward struggle with no winners.
    • And Casey has shown that the Tigers can go head-to-head with the Hawthorn board and beat it hopelessly.
    • And as I watched that final, trying hopelessly not to cry, consumed with indignant anger, my reality television bubble burst.
    • And all this time Adam looked at his brother as the condemned look hopelessly and puzzled at the executioner.
    • It had started to rain, and poor Elizabeth looked like a dejected soul as she fumbled hopelessly in her bag for keys.
    • And we know he goes to Mass, frequently and hopelessly, lingering afterwards for an angry, ongoing dialogue with his patient priest (Brian O'Byrne).
    • Arm outstretched hopelessly, I stand trying to flag down packed, battered buses as they groan past, belching suffocating fumes.
    Synonyms
    despairingly, without hope, in despair, in anguish, in distress, desperately, dejectedly, downheartedly, despondently, disconsolately, wretchedly, miserably, forlornly, resignedly, pessimistically
    utterly, completely, irretrievably, impossibly
    extremely, very, desperately, totally, awfully, terribly, tremendously, frightfully, dreadfully
    informal chronically
  • 2as submodifier Used to emphasize that a situation is beyond hope of improvement; irredeemably.

    before long, he was hopelessly lost
    she is hopelessly in love with him
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Such a politics of identity seems hopelessly bound to an ideal and a set of differences that it both rejects and depends on.
    • If the applause is muted, it is because the opposition has been so wretched, so hopelessly windblown too.
    • The institutional church has become hopelessly corporate, hopelessly tangled in a web of secularism.
    • Many times different versions of news appear to be hopelessly contradictory with each other.
    • The current global financial system is presently hopelessly bankrupt, says LaRouche.
    • The revolutionaries, hopelessly outnumbered, were forced to surrender.
    • The bulk of the adult population still farms tiny plots of hopelessly unproductive land in grinding poverty.
    • The words will surely land just this side of being hopelessly crass.
    • However, this simplicity is purchased at the cost of making the desert bases themselves hopelessly complicated.
    • Now, that post-1971 monetary-financial system is hopelessly bankrupt.
    • Once that talentless show was cancelled, Barris saw his life spin hopelessly out of control.
    • I turned my attention back to the ute, which was hopelessly bogged in thick black mud.
    • For example, Europe is, under present circumstances, hopelessly bankrupt.
    • In the world of Overtime, the planet Earth is hopelessly overcrowded.
    • The lightly armed Rangers were hopelessly overmatched; they were slaughtered.
    • At first glance, a position espousing a spiritual orientation to all disease seems hopelessly at odds with Western medicine.
    • Ben had the hopelessly innocent face of a young man on his first day in a new job.
    • We live lives that are hopelessly broken, and we know it.
    • The world monetary-financial system is, presently, hopelessly doomed.
    • The British Academy is still hopelessly reluctant at giving pop hits like Mamma Mia!

Definition of hopelessly in US English:

hopelessly

adverbˈhoʊpləsliˈhōpləslē
  • 1In a way that shows or causes despair.

    she sighed hopelessly
    Example sentencesExamples
    • And Casey has shown that the Tigers can go head-to-head with the Hawthorn board and beat it hopelessly.
    • Arm outstretched hopelessly, I stand trying to flag down packed, battered buses as they groan past, belching suffocating fumes.
    • And all this time Adam looked at his brother as the condemned look hopelessly and puzzled at the executioner.
    • And as I watched that final, trying hopelessly not to cry, consumed with indignant anger, my reality television bubble burst.
    • And we know he goes to Mass, frequently and hopelessly, lingering afterwards for an angry, ongoing dialogue with his patient priest (Brian O'Byrne).
    • It had started to rain, and poor Elizabeth looked like a dejected soul as she fumbled hopelessly in her bag for keys.
    • I was caught hopelessly between the present and the past; an inward struggle with no winners.
    Synonyms
    despairingly, without hope, in despair, in anguish, in distress, desperately, dejectedly, downheartedly, despondently, disconsolately, wretchedly, miserably, forlornly, resignedly, pessimistically
    utterly, completely, irretrievably, impossibly
  • 2as submodifier Used to emphasize that a situation is beyond hope of improvement; irredeemably.

    before long, he was hopelessly lost
    she is hopelessly in love with him
    Example sentencesExamples
    • At first glance, a position espousing a spiritual orientation to all disease seems hopelessly at odds with Western medicine.
    • We live lives that are hopelessly broken, and we know it.
    • The lightly armed Rangers were hopelessly overmatched; they were slaughtered.
    • For example, Europe is, under present circumstances, hopelessly bankrupt.
    • Ben had the hopelessly innocent face of a young man on his first day in a new job.
    • Such a politics of identity seems hopelessly bound to an ideal and a set of differences that it both rejects and depends on.
    • The British Academy is still hopelessly reluctant at giving pop hits like Mamma Mia!
    • The current global financial system is presently hopelessly bankrupt, says LaRouche.
    • The revolutionaries, hopelessly outnumbered, were forced to surrender.
    • Many times different versions of news appear to be hopelessly contradictory with each other.
    • Now, that post-1971 monetary-financial system is hopelessly bankrupt.
    • Once that talentless show was cancelled, Barris saw his life spin hopelessly out of control.
    • I turned my attention back to the ute, which was hopelessly bogged in thick black mud.
    • If the applause is muted, it is because the opposition has been so wretched, so hopelessly windblown too.
    • The words will surely land just this side of being hopelessly crass.
    • The institutional church has become hopelessly corporate, hopelessly tangled in a web of secularism.
    • However, this simplicity is purchased at the cost of making the desert bases themselves hopelessly complicated.
    • The bulk of the adult population still farms tiny plots of hopelessly unproductive land in grinding poverty.
    • The world monetary-financial system is, presently, hopelessly doomed.
    • In the world of Overtime, the planet Earth is hopelessly overcrowded.
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