despairing
4
4.6
- adjective
- /dɪˈspɛrɪŋ/
:
desesperado
- The students exchanged despairing glances when they learned that the exam had been postponed again.
Just an empty and despairing feeling in US.
- Just an empty and despairing feeling in US.
- I have my own version of the Santiana quote, my more despairing version.
- We, we find ourselves sad, angry, afraid, anxious, depressed, despairing.
- Angry is just as valid as sad, anxious, worried, broken, damaged, upset, distressed, despairing.
- And I was taken aback by how hopeless and despairing some people out there are with respect to women in relationships.
- And when he's sad, he's so despairing that you've seen it on the show where he actually cries like a lawn sprinkler where his eyes have to go.
- If you can hang on in the game long enough, nothing more despairing than seeing the age of who is it in Spider Man and his aunt.
- But right now, there's one big issue, and it is the despairing treatment of particular groups of people that are black.
Examples
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Joe gives Lisa a despairing look and then throws a dollar on the table.
Fiction book (1997) -
"What is it, mother?" I asked, embracing her out of a vaguely despairing sense of terror.
Fiction book (1990) -
His wife gave a despairing cry of, "He knows!"
Fiction book (2002) -
I do not want to leave this discussion on such a despairing note.
Academic text (1998) -
I have but one despairing thought haunting me now: that is my failure to make good in school.
Academic text (2002) -
Elias's questions about her work were dismissed with a despairing wave of the hand.
Fiction book (1993) -
Some feel more helpless and despairing than others; some have engaged themselves more actively than others in efforts at restoration.
Academic text (1998) -
Terrible, despairing wails rose shrilly to his ears from the street below.
Fiction book (1991) -
"You're leaving?" D.J. said, then hated herself for sounding so despairing.
Fiction book (1994) -
WE ARE STRUGGLING HERE WITH A COMMUNITY THAT IS TIRED... AND WORN AND DESPAIRING.
Synonyms
704
3.3
Wanting something very much and feeling hopeless
441
3.5
Feeling very sad and without hope
48
2.5
Feeling no hope about a situation or the future
29
2.5
Feeling sad and without much hope
22
6.8
Being sad and hopeless and not likely to succeed
18
7.7
Feeling very sad and without hope about the future
8
4.4
Feeling sad and not very hopeful
5
4.5
Feeling very sad and not hopeful
5
5.4
Feeling sad and without hope
3
4.7
Feeling sad and without much hope
1
4.1
Feeling sad and without much hope
Not expecting success or any improvement
Antonyms
How Hopeless
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Despairing comes from Latin parts de- 'without' and sperare 'to hope', and it shares the same root as desperate. That's why someone who is despairing feels 'without hope' and shows a deep loss of hope.