Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: hopelessly
IPA transcription: [h'oʊpləsli]
Pronunciations of hopelessly
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r meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: hopelessly
    Meaning: in a hopeless manner; "the papers were hopelessly jumbled"; "he is hopelessly romantic"
Usage examples
  • So far away now, so hopelessly far away!
  • He loved her so much, so terribly, so hopelessly.
  • Again and again he tried to do so, but failed hopelessly each time.
  • "Never, on your principality!" exclaimed the young man, hopelessly.
  • To Margaret, however, the whole thing seemed hopelessly small: there was so much to do, so little done!
  • He distorted his lower lip, and nodded his head hopelessly at the grey-haired man beside him, to indicate his powerlessness to help me.
  • It was that sense of being hopelessly in the wrong that I had so often felt in early youth when my short legs' utmost effort failed to overcome the fact that I was late to school.
  • It would not be likely to be out again before September, and by that time it would be hopelessly lost again, and have just as much to be rediscovered as if it had never been seen.
  • The longer I thought over this strange adventure, the more hopelessly tangled the mystery became: and it was a real relief to meet Arthur in the road, and get him to go with me up to the Hall, to learn what news the telegraph had brought.
  • Coral sells for as much as 500 francs per kilogram, and in this locality the liquid strata hid enough to make the fortunes of a whole host of coral fishermen. This valuable substance often merges with other polyparies, forming compact, hopelessly tangled units known as "macciota," and I noted some wonderful pink samples of this coral.
0. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Bob Ferguson (infielder), License CC BY-SA 4.0