Antonyms for hopelesslyhope·less·ly

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1. hopelesslyadverb

   in a hopeless manner

   "the papers were hopelessly jumbled"; "he is hopelessly romantic"

   Antonyms:
   hopefully

   Synonyms:
   dispiritedly

2. dispiritedly, hopelesslyadverb

   in a dispirited manner without hope

   "the first Mozartian opera to be subjected to this curious treatment ran dispiritedly for five performances"

   Antonyms:
   hopefully

   Synonyms:
   dispiritedly

3. hopelesslyadverb

   without hope; desperate because there seems no possibility of comfort or success

   "he hung his head hopelessly"; "`I must die,' he said hopelessly"

   Antonyms:
   hopefully

   Synonyms:
   dispiritedly

How to use hopelessly in a sentence?

1. Leo Rosten:

   Every writer is a narcissist. This does not mean that he is vain; it only means that he is hopelessly self-absorbed.

2. Stephen Jay Gould:

   “The literal record was not a hopelessly and imperfect fraction of truly insensible gradation within large populations but an accurate reflection of the actual process identified by evolutionists as the chief motor of biological change. The theory of punctuated equilibrium was, in its initial formulation, little more than this insight adumbrated.”

3. President Barack Obama:

   According to them everything was really good in 2008, when we were going through the worst economic crisis in our lifetimes, unemployment and uninsured rates were up, we were hopelessly addicted to foreign oil and (Osama) bin Laden was still on the loose. This apparently was the golden age that I messed up.

4. Lionel Trilling:

   A theory of the middle class: that it is not to be determined by its financial situation but rather by its relation to government. That is, one could shade down from an actual ruling or governing class to a class hopelessly out of relation to government, thinking of government as beyond its control, of itself as wholly controlled by government. Somewhere in between and In gradations is the group that has the sense that gov't exists for it, and shapes its consciousness accordingly.

5. George Santayana:

   To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

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