despairing in English

adjective

1

showing the loss of all hope.

he gave a despairing little shrug

verb

1

lose or be without hope.

we should not despair

synonyms: hopeless, in despair, dejected, depressed, despondent, disconsolate, gloomy, miserable, wretched, desolate, inconsolable, disheartened, discouraged, demoralized, devastated, suicidal, defeatist, pessimistic, lose hope, abandon hope, give up, lose heart, lose faith, be discouraged, be despondent, be demoralized, resign oneself, be pessimistic

adjective

• hopeless, in despair, dejected, depressed, despondent, disconsolate, gloomy, miserable, wretched, desolate, inconsolable, disheartened, discouraged, demoralized, devastated, suicidal, defeatist, pessimistic
• desperate

verb

• lose hope, abandon hope, give up, lose heart, lose faith, be discouraged, be despondent, be demoralized, resign oneself, be pessimistic

Use "despairing" in a sentence

1. It will be despairing hostility.

2. He glared at her, despairing.

3. He skipped past the defender's despairing lunge.

4. Stylish, despairing and very funny, Fake Accounts

5. He flashed her a despairing glance.

6. He received the news with a despairing sigh.

7. He sighed a deep, despairing sigh.

8. She flashed him a despairing glance.

9. The despairing man jumped off the crag.

10. She gave me a last despairing look.

11. Her chin sank onto her chest, and she looked despairing.

12. The despairing girl went to the well and leapt in.

13. 16 The despairing girl went to the well and leapt in.

14. She stared at the letter again, thinking hard, despairing.

15. To Lily, something almost despairing came from the child.

16. With every day that passed he became ever more despairing.

17. Many physicists find themselves despairing of ever finding such a picture.

18. When he received the despairing note from Sien he hurried in to see her.

19. 27 The scenes of them together, despairing and hopeful, angry and resilient, are masterful.

20. 12 You hide out in a black corner, weeping, grieving, and despairing.

21. That despairing bleat touched a heart she hadn't been sure still existed.

22. The despairing artist draws the girl's portrait on the Barroom floor and gets tossed out

23. It is not for the squeamish, but equally it is not for the merely despairing.

24. His despairing tackle merely provided an easy far-post chance for Artak Minasyan.

25. One British charity launched a campaign to lend the despairing a sympathetic ear.

26. Unable to resist a look in the mirror, she gave a despairing sigh.

27. She met Gerty's lamentable eyes, fixed on her in a despairing effort at consolation.

28. She turned on taps that emitted nothing but a despairing sigh and she laughed.

29. Once she glanced at her watch and, with a despairing sigh, realised it wasn't even midnight yet.

30. The despairing, faithless, gaping, horrified wife looked down at her lover, and knew that he was dead.

31. Despairing of a cluttered cupboard, baffled by anger's exigent protocols, we could not say what was meant.

32. At the door he turned and gave me a last despairing look and I saw him no more.

33. So we find him circling for months around the insoluble problem of Kee, exulting and then despairing, then exulting again.

34. Funds for education, for training and for rehabilitation are declining, so this despairing cycle of incarceration continues.

35. One is no longer the hopeful or the despairing guest: one is host in the house of oneself.

36. With every day that passed he became ever more despairing and hopeless as messengers brought him reports of the army's casualties.

37. The music soothed her for a while but the needle stuck in a groove suddenly and she wept in response, despairing.

38. Bewail Sentence Examples And she burst into sobs with the despairing vehemence with which people Bewail disasters they feel they have themselves occasioned

39. THE DOCTOR OF PIMLICO WILLIAM LE QUEUX On landing, the old prince, trembling from top to toe, with despairing glance Clutched the arm of the Governor for protection

40. 25 Low and grovelling thoughts of God must be given up; doubting and despairing must be removed; and self-seeking and carnal delights must be forsaken.

41. The voice, the tone, the tender accent she had heard and loved in the earlier days lifted her from the despairing depths into which she had sunk.

42. Reilly, as “a fat, slothful, perpetually farting medievalist and self-styled superior being.” But even more astonishing, adds Bazes, is the fact that this novel won the Pulitzer Prize several years after its much-rejected and despairing

43. For more information on helping those suffering emotional wounds, see the articles “Hope for Despairing Ones” and “They Want to Help” in The Watchtower of August 1, 1983, and “Help for the Victims of Incest” in the issue of October 1, 1983.

44. ‘The kingfisher came Arrowing along the shoreline, saw the heron, and made a screeching halt in midair.’ ‘With the ball Arrowing towards the top corner, Dudek gets a finger-tip to it.’ ‘And once again his shot was true, Arrowing past the despairing McKenzie.’

45. Careworn Sentence Examples My younger sister and I carried out several operations on him so he looked rather Careworn. That feeling was so strong at the moment of leaving Voronezh that those who saw her off, as they looked at her Careworn, despairing face, felt sure she would fall ill on the journey. Careworn …