Hopeably
adv ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 hopefully; in a way that one would hope for nonstandard, not-comparable
"1975, John B. Bremner, review of Strictly Speaking, Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, March 1975; vol. 52, 1: p. 156. http://books.google.com/books?id=OYtZAAAAMAAJ&q=hopeably&dq=hopeably&hl=en&sa=X&ei=iSbJU8KuAaLLsATPk4GYDw&ved=0CCgQ6AEwAzgU Hopeably, Newman will win awards for Strictly Speaking. Like, yunno, I mean, Newman writes real good like newsmen used to could."
Example
More examples"1975, John B. Bremner, review of Strictly Speaking, Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, March 1975; vol. 52, 1: p. 156. http://books.google.com/books?id=OYtZAAAAMAAJ&q=hopeably&dq=hopeably&hl=en&sa=X&ei=iSbJU8KuAaLLsATPk4GYDw&ved=0CCgQ6AEwAzgU Hopeably, Newman will win awards for Strictly Speaking. Like, yunno, I mean, Newman writes real good like newsmen used to could."
Etymology
From hope + -ably.
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