0 extremely, or in a way that makes you lose hope: --
We were hopelessly lost.
They met at university and fell hopelessly in love.
1 completely: --
We got hopelessly lost in Rome.
Her own "hopelessly muddled story" has a similarly transfusive effect on its reader.
Previous values were condemned as hopelessly mired in the production economism and the unwarranted interference of the state in the liberty of the sovereign individual.
As an author of the former persuasion, my vision now stands revealed as hopelessly narrow and small.
If no such criteria are available, the rationality argument is likely to remain hopelessly moot.
He wants to be able to say that his hopelessly subdued housewife lacks desires for freedoms that she has reason to value.
Societies are either infinitely adaptable or hopelessly at the mercy of an unpredictable environment.
Ethical problems created by the hopelessly unconscious patient.
Actual readers become like eavesdroppers who overhear a conversation that is not really meant for their hopelessly-biased ears.
