showing or feeling the loss of all hope:
a despairing cry / look / sigh * With every day that passed he became ever more despairing.
despairingly adverb:
She looked despairingly at the mess.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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Is despairing a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, despairing is tagged as adjective.
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