Antonym: hopeful. Similar words: despair, airing, despatch, tiring, firing, retiring, aspiring, admiring. Meaning: [-eərɪŋ] 
adj. arising from or marked by despair or loss of hope.
adj. arising from or marked by despair or loss of hope. 
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61) Result the ethical behavior had three prominent character: anxious period illusional period despairing period.
62) I was also despairing as a teen because of my weight.
63) We are optimistic, we shall never become pessimistic or despairing.
64) With a despairing cry the woman banged her head against the wall.
65) 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.
66) Their work is a despairing metaphor for a society in its death throes.
67) The King, despairing from the loss of his wife, began to sign treaty after treaty with the Japanese, which eventually led to their colonial rule from 1910-1945.
68) At the same time, Americans just scraping by have sometimes felt truculently "good about America" at moments when the upper middle class was despairing.
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