Despairful

//dɪˈspɛːfəl// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Characterised by despair; hopeless.

    "[…] wretches, whose vnhappie cace, / After lost credite and consumed thrift, / At last them driuen hath to this despairefull drift."

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forlorn

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"[…] wretches, whose vnhappie cace, / After lost credite and consumed thrift, / At last them driuen hath to this despairefull drift."

Etymology

From despair + -ful.

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