adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
hopelessly wrong
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In most cases judges are right, but in a few they are hopelessly wrong.
totally/wholly/woefully/hopelessly etc inadequate
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The building’s electrical system was completely inadequate.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
inadequate
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It had proved hopelessly inadequate during the revolution of 1905-6.
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These students traverse course after remedial course, becoming increasingly turned off to writing, increasingly convinced that they are hopelessly inadequate .
■ VERB
become
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It is not possible to be much more precise than this without becoming hopelessly entangled in a series of impossible dilemmas.
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The result was that his daily arrangements became hopelessly dislocated.
confuse
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He was baffled by arithmetic and hopelessly confused by those twin horrors, history and geography.
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In such a day, wars are usually the overt result of hopelessly confused covert causes.
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She was hopelessly confused , not wanting to lose Georg, but at the same time obsessed with the pull of Gesner.
fall
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She was falling hopelessly in love with the man.
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If growth continued, the population and the water would fall hopelessly out of balance.
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I was too afraid of falling hopelessly in love with this protégé of Yukio Mishima, whose marvellous homoerotic poems I translated.
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And, unknown to her father, I fell hopelessly in love with her.
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The independent ethic they had courted so successfully since their conception was beginning to fall hopelessly apart.
lose
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By that time I was hopelessly lost and hopelessly bored.
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I sensed that she loved her little girl a great deal but was feeling hopelessly lost about how to cope with her.
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OnceI think it was in Munich; maybe Colognehe got hopelessly lost and needed to pull over to look at the map.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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"I feel like quitting," she said hopelessly .
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Sanders said that Congress was hopelessly out of touch with the needs of ordinary citizens.
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We're hopelessly behind schedule.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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After about twenty minutes, walking and fishing, she realised that she was hopelessly lost.
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And, unknown to her father, I fell hopelessly in love with her.
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From that moment, it was doomed to become a huge, sprawling, one-story conurbation, hopelessly dependent on the automobile.
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He loved a lifeless thing and he was utterly and hopelessly wretched.
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He shrugged again, smiling hopelessly .
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Many considered the Booker Washington area hopelessly blighted.
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Perhaps my notion of wilderness is romantic and hopelessly out of date, but I have to say that I find paragliding an intrusion.
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They went almost hopelessly into the great wilderness of trees where it seemed impossible to find anything.