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Meanings of dispairing in English

Indicating despair.

Synonyms
Examples for "hopeless"
Examples for "hopeless"
1
He had given up hope-nowonder his brother thought it was hopeless.
The Valley of Horses
2
They nevertheless continued the hopeless struggle a little longer; but in B.C.
A Smaller History of Rome
3
In that case, hopeless became admission; my adventure must issue in catastrophe.
Villette
4
Humanity was a hopeless discord; individual security lay only in individual strength.
A Midsummer Drive Through the Pyrenees
5
That's a lot of lost revenue, but the situation is not hopeless.
Reuters
Usage of dispairing in English
1
She gave a dispairing cry and tried to jump after him, then came unconsciousness.
The Waif of the "Cynthia"
2
There they could hold her against all hope of rescue, until an immense sum of money was paid over in ransom by her dispairing friends.
Truxton King: A Story of Graustark
Frequent collocations
Dispairing through the time