despairing
Utterly losing faith
Despairing describes someone who has lost hope or given way to despair: a despairing cry, She gave him a despairing look.
The word suggests not just sadness but the absence of any expectation that things will improve.
After months of searching, he grew despairing of ever finding work.
Believing events are inevitable
- cynicalDoubting human goodness
- disillusionedFreed from false beliefs
- hopelessBeyond possibility of success
- grimHarsh and foreboding
dark · negative · defeatist · doubtful · resigned · world-weary · jaded · bitter
Extreme physical or emotional pain
- tormentSevere prolonged suffering
- sufferingSustained experience of distress
- anguishedSeverely emotionally distressed
- heartacheDeep emotional distress
grief · sorrow · distress · woe · misery · lamentation · bereavement · trauma
Low in spirits
- downcastSad or despondent
- despondentDeeply discouraged, hopeless
- glumQuietly dejected
- moroseSullenly ill-humored
somber · lugubrious · woeful · doleful · disconsolate · bleak · dreary · forlorn
State without hope
- futilityLack of purpose
- despondentDeeply discouraged, hopeless
- forlornSad and abandoned
- resignedYielded to circumstances
helpless · bleak · doomed · irredeemable · lost · rock-bottom · futile · pointless
Compressed into fragments
- beatenHaving lost a contest
- demoralizedStripped of confidence
- disheartenedLost confidence or hope
- brokenDamaged beyond function
vanquished · overcome · crestfallen · deflated · dispirited · downtrodden · spent · succumbed
Death by water inhalation
- swampedOverwhelmed beyond capacity
- engulfedCompletely swallowed up
- burdenedCarrying a heavy load
- overwroughtExcessively emotional or elaborate
inundated · besieged · flooded · crushed · overloaded · suffocating · paralyzed · frantic
fatalistic
Believing events are inevitable
- cynicalDoubting human goodness
- disillusionedFreed from false beliefs
- hopelessBeyond possibility of success
grim · dark · negative · defeatist · doubtful · resigned · world-weary · jaded · bitter · disenchanted
agony
Extreme physical or emotional pain
- tormentSevere prolonged suffering
- sufferingSustained experience of distress
- anguishedSeverely emotionally distressed
heartache · grief · sorrow · distress · woe · misery · lamentation · bereavement · trauma · pain
dejected
Low in spirits
- downcastSad or despondent
- despondentDeeply discouraged, hopeless
- glumQuietly dejected
morose · somber · lugubrious · woeful · doleful · disconsolate · bleak · dreary · forlorn · wretched
hopelessness
State without hope
- futilityLack of purpose
- despondentDeeply discouraged, hopeless
- forlornSad and abandoned
resigned · helpless · bleak · doomed · irredeemable · lost · rock-bottom · futile · pointless · purposeless
crushed
Compressed into fragments
- beatenHaving lost a contest
- demoralizedStripped of confidence
- disheartenedLost confidence or hope
broken · vanquished · overcome · crestfallen · deflated · dispirited · downtrodden · spent · succumbed · capitulated
drowning
Death by water inhalation
overwrought · inundated · besieged · flooded · crushed · overloaded · suffocating · paralyzed · frantic · exhausted
despairinghopeful
Feeling positive expectation
optimistic · expectant · confident · encouraged · sanguine