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

Youth sports, once the redoubt of aimless childhood play, have become hopelessly commercialized. — Nora Kenney Mittiga, Washington Post, 21 Sep. 2026

Don Adams led the slapstick spy spoof as the brainy but hopelessly incompetent Agent Smart, starring alongside Barbara Feldon as the ever-capable Agent 99. — Jack Dunn, Variety, 9 Sep. 2026

What Assange wanted was not a system hardened against attacks, but one tied in knots, hopelessly conflicted and filled with suspicion, denunciations, and purges. — Finn Brunton, Harpers Magazine, 1 Sep. 2026

Eurotrash from Frauke Finsterwalder will have its world premiere in Zurich, the festival confirmed Monday, following a writer called Philipp who embarks with his terminally ill and hopelessly drunk mother, Helene, on a road trip through Switzerland. — Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 31 Aug. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1616, in the meaning defined above