hopelessly
adverb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 adverb
in a hopeless manner
the papers were hopelessly jumbled
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- hopeless derived from
- colloquialism domain usage
Sense 2 adverb
in a dispirited manner without hope
the first Mozartian opera to be subjected to this curious treatment ran dispiritedly for five performances
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Sense 3 adverb
without hope; desperate because there seems no possibility of comfort or success
he hung his head hopelessly
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Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derived from | Related & opposite | hopeless |
| 1 | domain usage | Related & opposite | colloquialism |
| 2 | derived from | Related & opposite | downp |
| 2 | derived from | Related & opposite | hopeless |
| 3 | antonym | Related & opposite | hopefully |
| 3 | derived from | Related & opposite | hopeless |