despairing
Pronunciation
  • IPA: /dɪˈspɛəɹ.ɪŋ/
Adjective

despairing (not comparable)

  1. Feeling, expressing, or caused by despair; hopeless.
Verb
  1. present participle of despair#English|despair
Noun

despairing (plural despairings)

  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 Teufelsdrockh's soul was the scene of, he has the goodness to conceal under a quite opaque cover of Silence.



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