hopelessly

adverb

hope·​less·​ly ˈhō-pləs-lē 

: in a hopeless manner

stared hopelessly out the window

—used especially as an intensifier

hopelessly optimistic

They fell hopelessly in love.

… the formerly despised and hopelessly middle-class game of golf.

—Ejner Jensen

Examples of hopelessly in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The Red Sox seemed to be hopelessly out of the playoff race two weeks ago. — Michael Cunningham, AJC.com, 13 July 2026

The move to expand the World Cup generated serious backlash, in part because the group stage of the tournament has become lower stakes and hopelessly arcane. — Jacob Stern, The Atlantic, 10 July 2026

John Roberts plainly does not want to go down as the Chief Justice under whom this Supreme Court became hopelessly divided, with the automatic 6–3, the automatic pro-conservative outcome. — Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 6 July 2026

They are also hopelessly confounded by other policy changes that occurred in that window. — Ian Miller Outkick, FOXNews.com, 1 July 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1616, in the meaning defined above