hopelessly
adverb
hope·less·ly ˈhō-pləs-lē 
: in a hopeless manner —used especially as an intensifier
the formerly despised and hopelessly middle-class game of golf
Ejner Jensen
Ejner Jensen
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web This may be the best song Smokey ever gave away, a hopelessly devoted celebration of his special girl (the Miracles' own Claudette Rodgers), written in collaboration with another Miracle, Ronnie White. Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 10 Aug. 2022 Claudia Rose arrived in early 1993, but not before Pfeiffer agreed to a blind date with Kelley and fell hopelessly in love. Lacey Rose, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Apr. 2022 And Elton sure as hell is not interested in the electromagnetic properties of our hopelessly outmoded submarines. Mikhail Iossel, The New Yorker, 12 Aug. 2021 At first, Fauci was concerned that, if people taking multiple experimental medications joined clinical trials, the results would be hopelessly muddled. Benjamin Wallace-well, The New Yorker, 12 Aug. 2021 Rock ’n’ roll had come to dominate the charts, and songs that sounded too traditional—anything with too much pedal steel or fiddle, or too many lyrics about family and God—felt hopelessly old-fashioned. Amanda Petrusich, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Mar. 2022 Initial estimates that the virus might kill up to 240,000 people even with intervention measures now seem hopelessly naive. Washington Post, 12 Jan. 2022 All too often, charts and sailing directions, if they could be found at all, were hopelessly out of date, in some cases more than 100 years old—even for high-priority invasion targets. Catherine Musemeche, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 July 2022 That speech, disingenuous then, or hopelessly gullible, is utterly disqualifying now. Yvonne Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 24 June 2022 See More
Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 10 Aug. 2022 Claudia Rose arrived in early 1993, but not before Pfeiffer agreed to a blind date with Kelley and fell hopelessly in love. Lacey Rose, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Apr. 2022 And Elton sure as hell is not interested in the electromagnetic properties of our hopelessly outmoded submarines. Mikhail Iossel, The New Yorker, 12 Aug. 2021 At first, Fauci was concerned that, if people taking multiple experimental medications joined clinical trials, the results would be hopelessly muddled. Benjamin Wallace-well, The New Yorker, 12 Aug. 2021 Rock ’n’ roll had come to dominate the charts, and songs that sounded too traditional—anything with too much pedal steel or fiddle, or too many lyrics about family and God—felt hopelessly old-fashioned. Amanda Petrusich, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Mar. 2022 Initial estimates that the virus might kill up to 240,000 people even with intervention measures now seem hopelessly naive. Washington Post, 12 Jan. 2022 All too often, charts and sailing directions, if they could be found at all, were hopelessly out of date, in some cases more than 100 years old—even for high-priority invasion targets. Catherine Musemeche, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 July 2022 That speech, disingenuous then, or hopelessly gullible, is utterly disqualifying now. Yvonne Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 24 June 2022 See More Word History
First Known Use
1616, in the meaning defined above