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hope·less
(hōp′lĭs)adj.
1.
a. Having no hope; despairing: lost hikers who felt hopeless.
b. Characterized by despair: hopeless resignation.
2.
a. Having no possibility of being solved or dealt with; impossible: a hopeless problem; a hopeless disease.
b. Having no hope or chance of changing or improving: a hopeless romantic; a hopeless procrastinator.
hope′less·ness n.
hope′less·ly adv.
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Adv. | 1. | hopelessly - in a hopeless manner; "the papers were hopelessly jumbled"; "he is hopelessly romantic" colloquialism - a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech |
2. | hopelessly - in a dispirited manner without hope; "the first Mozartian opera to be subjected to this curious treatment ran dispiritedly for five performances" | |
3. | hopelessly - without hope; desperate because there seems no possibility of comfort or success; "he hung his head hopelessly"; "`I must die,' he said hopelessly" hopefully - with hope; in a hopeful manner; "we searched hopefully for a good position" |
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hopelessly
adverb
1. without hope, desperately, in despair, despairingly, irredeemably, irremediably, beyond all hope hopelessly in love
2. completely, totally, extremely, desperately, terribly, utterly, tremendously, awfully, impossibly, frightfully The story is hopelessly confusing.
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Translations
بصورَة يائِسَه
beznadějně
håbløst
vonleysislega, vonlaust
beznádejne
brezupno
hopelessly
[ˈhəʊplɪslɪ] ADV1. (= despairingly) [look, speak, continue] → sin esperanza
2. (as intensifier) [inadequate, confused, lost] → totalmente, completamente
he is hopelessly in debt → está totalmente or completamente endeudado
to be hopelessly in love → estar perdidamente enamorado
he is hopelessly in debt → está totalmente or completamente endeudado
to be hopelessly in love → estar perdidamente enamorado
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hopelessly
adv
(= despairingly) sigh, shrug, cry → verzweifelt
(emph: = utterly) hopelessly confused → völlig verwirrt; the service was hopelessly inadequate → der Service war völlig unmöglich; I feel hopelessly inadequate → ich komme mir völlig minderwertig vor; he got hopelessly lost in the fog → er hat sich im Nebel hoffnungslos verirrt; I was hopelessly in love with Louise → ich hatte mich rettungslos in Louise verliebt; I’m hopelessly bad at maths → in Mathe bin ich ein hoffnungsloser Fall
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007
hopelessly
[ˈhəʊplɪslɪ] adv (live) → senza speranza; (involved, complicated) → spaventosamente; (late) → disperatamente, irrimediabilmenteI'm hopelessly confused/lost → sono completamente confuso/perso
hopelessly in love → perdutamente innamorato/a
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hope
(həup) verb to want something to happen and have some reason to believe that it will or might happen. He's very late, but we are still hoping he will come; I hope to be in London next month; We're hoping for some help from other people; It's unlikely that he'll come now, but we keep on hoping; `Do you think it will rain?' `I hope so/not'.
noun1. (any reason or encouragement for) the state of feeling that what one wants will or might happen. He has lost all hope of becoming the president; He came to see me in the hope that I would help him; He has hopes of winning a scholarship; The rescuers said there was no hope of finding anyone alive in the mine.
2. a person, thing etc that one is relying on for help etc. He's my last hope – there is no-one else I can ask.
3. something hoped for. My hope is that he will get married and settle down soon.
ˈhopeful adjective1. (negative unhopeful) full of hope. The police are hopeful that they will soon find the killer; hopeful faces; He is hopeful of success.
2. giving a reason or encouragement for hope. That's a hopeful sign – perhaps he is going to change his mind after all.
3. likely to be pleasant, successful etc. The future looks quite hopeful.
ˈhopefulness nounˈhopefully adverb
1. in a hopeful way. The dog looked hopefully at the joint of meat.
2. it is to be hoped that. Hopefully, that will never happen.
ˈhopeless adjective1. not likely to be successful. It's hopeless to try to persuade him; a hopeless attempt; The future looks hopeless.
2. (with at) not good. I'm a hopeless housewife; He's hopeless at French.
3. unable to be stopped, cured etc. The doctors considered the patient's case hopeless; He's a hopeless liar/idiot.
ˈhopelessly adverbˈhopelessness noun
hope against hope
to continue hoping when there is no (longer any) reason for hope.
hope for the best to hope that something will succeed, that nothing bad will happen etc.
not (have) a hope (to be) completely unlikely (to succeed in something). He hasn't a hope of getting the job; `Will he get the job?' `Not a hope!'
raise someone's hopes to cause someone to hope, usually when there is no good reason to.
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