Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Full of or indicating despair; hopeless.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Hopeless.
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- adjective Characterised by
despair ;hopeless .
Etymologies
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Examples
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And at this place and that, I to make pause that I show Mine Own those places where I did slumber, and she alway to need that she come unto the very part, and that she stand for a little moment where I did lie so lonesome, as I went outward unto that despairful searching.
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It filled the evening air with its doleful wailing, and I remarked that there was in it a curious sobbing, most human in its despairful crying.
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That growing despairful insubordination that had done so much to bring about the winding up of the World War in 1918 reappeared in new forms.
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But when he thought of her lying there, and that all was over, that they would lay her in the earth, he was seized with a fierce, gloomy, despairful rage.
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A cheerful, hopeful, contented mind, predisposes to a healthy body, and conversely, a discontented and despairful mind, interferes with the vital functions and invites disease and death.
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There are others that are made bitter and morose and despairful.
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This time there was a despairful agony of kindness in his face.
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He rolled his big, brown eyes in a despairful manner that was unconsciously comic.
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One glance he cast into the tiny cavity, then dropped back upon the bunk, twisting his mobile mouth in that half smile at once humorous and despairful.
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Smith met my glance as I raised my head, and his teeth came together with a loud snap; the jaw muscles stood out prominently beneath the dark skin; and his face was grimly set in that old, half-despairful expression which I knew so well but which boded so ill for whomsoever occasioned it.
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