hopelessly

hopelessly
adv.
Hopelessly is used with these adjectives: ↑addicted, ↑biased, ↑bogged down, ↑confused, ↑corrupt, ↑dated, ↑disorganized, ↑entangled, ↑flawed, ↑impractical, ↑inaccurate, ↑inadequate, ↑incompetent, ↑inefficient, ↑inept, ↑inexperienced, ↑lost, ↑muddled, ↑naive, ↑old-fashioned, ↑optimistic, ↑tangled, ↑vague, ↑wrong

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