Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: despairing
IPA transcription: [dɪsp'ɛɹɪŋ]
adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: despairing, desperate
    Meaning: arising from or marked by despair or loss of hope; "a despairing view of the world situation"; "the last despairing plea of the condemned criminal"; "a desperate cry for help"; "helpless and desperate--as if at the end of his tether"; "her desperate screams"
Usage examples
  • Tom cast a despairing look up at the motor.
  • "Yulka," he said in a low, despairing voice, "Yulka; my Antonia!"
  • The scream came a second time, terrified and despairing, and out over the water following it came a low, scattered rumble.
  • And one by one dropped the revellers in the blood-bedewed halls of their revel, and died each in the despairing posture of his fall.
  • Servadac smiled faintly, and replied that he felt rather compelled to take up the despairing cry of Dante, "All hope abandon, ye who enter here."
  • Nora was a blue-eyed, black-haired Irish girl, the sixth that the despairing Billy had interviewed on that fateful morning when Bertram had summoned her to his aid.
  • His eyes, bulging with terror, avoided us, while his right hand, with a spasmodic movement, twitched at the beard that covered his honest, gentle, and now despairing face.
  • "No," said Mary, with a despairing shake of the head, as the tears began to flow again; "no! never." And falling upon his knees, he caught both her hands in his, sprang to his feet and ran from the room.
  • But, on the third day as he was despairing he caught sight of an island steep and mountainous; so he swam for it and landing, walked on inland, where he rested a day and a Night, feeding on the growth of the ground.
  • how they mutter! Poets unnamed--artists greatest of any, with cherish'd lost designs, Love's unresponse--a chorus of age's complaints--hope's last words, Some suicide's despairing cry, Away to the boundless waste, and never again return.