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despairing
despairing
/dɪs ˈpɛ rɪŋ/
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arising from or marked by despair or loss of hope
despairing meaning(s)
- (adj) arising from or marked by despair or loss of hope
despairing usage(s)
- But before despairing that some things never change, consider how much has.
- Most of Ionesco's works were funnier than Beckett's, more verbal, richer in farcical action and far less despairing.
- despairingly despairingly with desperation
- despatch despatch /dɪs ˈpætʃ/ ? an official report (usually sent in haste)
- desperado desperado /ˌdɛ spə ˈrɑ doʊ/ ? a bold outlaw (especially on the American frontier)
- desperadoes desperadoes /ˌdɛ spə ˈrɑ doʊz/ ? a bold outlaw (especially on the American frontier)
- desperate desperate /ˈdɛs prɪt/ ? a person who is frightened and in need of help
- desperate criminal desperate criminal a bold outlaw (especially on the American frontier)
- desperate measure desperate measure desperate actions taken as a means to an end
- desperate straits desperate straits a state of extreme distress
- desperately desperately /ˈdɛ spə rət li/ ? with great urgency
- desperation desperation /ˌdɛ spə ˈreɪ ʃən/ ? a state in which all hope is lost or absent
- despicability despicability /ˌdɛs pɪ kə ˈbɪ lɪ tɪ/ ? unworthiness by virtue of lacking higher values
- despicable despicable /dɪs ˈpɪ kə bəl/ ? morally reprehensible
- despicableness despicableness unworthiness by virtue of lacking higher values
- despicably despicably in a despicable manner
- despisal despisal a feeling of scornful hatred
- despise despise /dɪs ˈpaɪz/ ? look down on with disdain
- despised despised /dɪs ˈpaɪzd/ ? treated with contempt
- despising despising /dɪs ˈpaɪ zɪŋ/ ? a feeling of scornful hatred
- despite despite /dɪs ˈpaɪt/ ? lack of respect accompanied by a feeling of intense dislike
- despiteful despiteful showing malicious ill will and a desire to hurt; motivated by spite
- despitefully despitefully in a maliciously spiteful manner
- despoil despoil /dɪs ˈpɔɪl/ ? steal goods; take as spoils
- despoilation despoilation the act of stripping and taking by force