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Despairing

//dɪˈspɛəɹ.ɪŋ// adj, noun, verb

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Feeling, expressing, or caused by despair; hopeless. not-comparable

    "He was beginning to forget his burdening, despairing mood of a short while ago."

Adjective
  1. 1
    arising from or marked by despair or loss of hope wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    A mood or display of despair.

    "But what things soever passed in him, when he ceased to see it; what ragings and despairings soever Teufelsdröckh's soul was the scene of, he has the goodness to conceal under a quite opaque cover of Silence."

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of despair form-of, gerund, participle, present

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English despeyringe, equivalent to despair + -ing.

Etymology 2

From Middle English despeyringe, equivalent to despair + -ing.

Etymology 3

From Middle English despeyringe, equivalent to despair + -ing.

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