despairing

despairing

English

Etymology

despair +‎ -ing

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɪˈspɛəɹ.ɪŋ/

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Adjective

despairing (not comparable)

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

Verb

despairing

1. present participle of despair

Noun

despairing (plural despairings)

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

     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.

Anagrams

• depairings, diaperings, spinigrade