Hopelessly Synonyms and Antonyms

Giving small ground for hope
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. impossibly
  2. incurably
  3. desperately
  4. fatally
  5. unavailingly
  6. unfortunately
  7. badly
  8. without a chance in the world
  9. with all odds against
In a dispirited manner without hope
(Adverb)
Synonyms:
  1. dispiritedly
Without hope; desperate because there seems no possibility of comfort or success
(Adverb)
Antonyms:
  1. hopefully
Without hope
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. cynically
  2. pessimistically
  3. despondently
  4. despairingly
  5. dejectedly
  6. disconsolately
  7. desperately
  8. mechanically
  9. automatically
  10. emptily
  11. spiritlessly
  12. darkly
  13. gloomily
  14. dismally
  15. desolately
  16. down-in-the-mouth
  17. under-the-weather
  18. fit-to-be-tied
Antonyms:
  1. confidently
  2. hopefully
  3. expectantly

Words Related to Hopelessly

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Hopelessly Sentence Examples

  • Dorvad the lazy mate hopelessly missed his Queen Sinthee.

  • Sure, she was willing enough to forget the idea, but then, she was hopelessly in love with him.

  • When first discovered, in 1817, these frescoes were in a fair state of preservation, but they have since been allowed to go hopelessly to ruin.

  • In his earlier writings he was regarded as one of the greatest champions of the non-jurors; but the doctrine which he afterwards promulgated, that the soul is naturally mortal, and that immortality could be enjoyed only by those who had received baptism from the hands of one set of regularly ordained clergy, and was therefore a privilege from which dissenters were hopelessly excluded, did not strengthen his reputation.

  • The king being dead, and the royalist cause appearing to be hopelessly lost, he did not scruple, in closing the work with a general " Review and Conclusion," to raise the question of the subject's right to change allegiance when a former sovereign's power to protect was irrecoverably gone.

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