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despairingadjective emphasizing or expecting the worstdespairing predictions regarding the effects of global overpopulation bearish, defeatist, downbeat, hopeless, pessimistic cynical, fatalistic, nihilist, nihilisticdesperate, discouraging, disheartening, inauspicious, unlikely, unpromisingbleak, cheerless, comfortless, depressing, desolate, dismal, dreary, funereal, gloomy, morose, saturnine, sepulchral, somber(or sombre), sullengrimcontrary, hostile, negative hopeful, optimistic, Panglossian, Pollyanna, Pollyannaish(also Pollyannish), rose-colored, rosy, upbeat auspicious, bright, encouraging, fair, golden, heartening, likely, promising, propitiouscheering, comforting, reassuringfavorable, good, positiveidealist, romantic, utopian, visionarycheerful, cheery, chipper, sunny feeling or showing no hopedespairing applicants need to be reminded that most students are eventually accepted somewhere desperate, despondent, forlorn, hopeless blue, brokenhearted, crestfallen, dejected, depressed, disconsolate, doleful, down, downcast, downhearted, gloomy, glum, hangdog, heartbroken, heartsick, heartsore, inconsolable, joyless, low, low-spirited, melancholy, miserable, mournful, sad, saddened, sorrowful, sorry, unhappy, woebegone, woeful, wretchedabject, disappointed, discouraged, disheartened, dispiritedgrieving, wailing, weepingbleak, cheerless, comfortless, dark, depressing, desolate, dismal, drear, dreary, funerealcynical, pessimisticaccepting, resigned hopeful, optimistic ecstatic, elated, enraptured, entranced, euphoric, exhilarated, exuberant, exultantblithe, blithesome, gay, jocund, jolly, jovial, lightsome, merry, mirthfulencouraged, heartenedanimated, jaunty, lively, perky, sprightful, sprightly, vivaciousblissful, buoyant, cheerful, cheery, chipper, delighted, glad, gladdened, gladsome, gleeful, happy, joyful, joyous, jubilant, sunny, upbeat to lose all hope or confidencewe despaired when we saw how little time we had left to complete our project desponding giving up, surrendering, yieldingdarkening, saddeningagonizing, bleeding, grieving, hurting, mourning, sorrowing, sufferingdiscouraging, disheartening, dispiriting losing heart brightening, cheering (up), perking (up) exulting, rejoicingassuring, encouraging, heartening, reassuringhoping adj.despondent, despairing, desperate, hopeless mean having lost all or nearly all hope.despondent implies a deep dejection arising from a conviction of the uselessness of further effort.despondent about yet another rejection despairing suggests the slipping away of all hope and often despondency.despairing appeals for the return of the kidnapped child desperate implies despair that prompts reckless action or violence in the face of defeat or frustration.one last desperate attempt to turn the tide of battle hopeless suggests despair and the cessation of effort or resistance and often implies acceptance or resignation.the situation of the trapped miners is hopeless in 1589 |