Despairing

Pronunciation

• IPA: /dɪˈspɛər.ɪŋ/

Origin

despair + -ing

Full definition of despairing

Adjective

1. Feeling, expressing, or caused by despair; hopeless.

Verb

1. Present participle of despair

Noun

1. A mood or display of despair.
• Thomas CarlyleBut 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.