Despairing
51despair — [[t]dɪspe͟ə(r)[/t]] despairs, despairing, despaired 1) N UNCOUNT: also N in pl Despair is the feeling that everything is wrong and that nothing will improve. I looked at my wife in despair... There is always someone to whom you can admit feelings …
52desperate — a. 1. Despairing, hopeless, desponding, despondent, without hope. 2. Wretched, forlorn, beyond hope, irretrievable, past cure, hopeless, despaired of, lost beyond recovery. 3. Extreme, prompted by despair, heroic, done as a last resort or in… …
53melancholy# — melancholy n *sadness, melancholia, dejection, gloom, depression, blues, dumps Analogous words: miserableness or misery, wretchedness (see corresponding adjectives at MISERABLE): despondency, despair, hopelessness, forlornness, desperation (see… …
54hopeless — [hōp′lis] adj. 1. without hope [a hopeless prisoner] 2. allowing no hope; causing despair [a hopeless situation] 3. impossible to solve, cure, deal with, teach, etc. hopelessly adv. hopelessness n. SYN. HOPELESS means having no expectation of, or …
55undespairing — “+ adjective Etymology: un (I) + despairing, present participle of despair : not despairing : undaunted …
56DANIEL, BOOK OF — DANIEL, BOOK OF, a book of the third division of the Hebrew Bible, the Hagiographa, named for a man Daniel whose fortunes and predictions are the subject of the book. DIVISIONS AND CONTENTS When the Book of Daniel is examined for content and… …
57YE'USH — (Heb. יֵאוּשׁ; lit. despair ), despair of property. A person s ownership of property ceases when it is apparent that he has made up his mind that the property will be out of his possession forever (see ownership ). This occurs (a) where he has… …
58Despair — De*spair , v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Despaired}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Despairing}.] [OE. despeiren, dispeiren, OF. desperer, fr. L. desperare; de + sperare to hope; akin to spes hope, and perh. to spatium space, E. space, speed; cf. OF. espeir hope, F.… …
59Despaired — Despair De*spair , v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Despaired}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Despairing}.] [OE. despeiren, dispeiren, OF. desperer, fr. L. desperare; de + sperare to hope; akin to spes hope, and perh. to spatium space, E. space, speed; cf. OF. espeir… …
60Desperate — Des per*ate, a. [L. desperatus, p. p. of desperare. See {Despair}, and cf. {Desperado}.] 1. Without hope; given to despair; hopeless. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] I am desperate of obtaining her. Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. Beyond hope; causing despair;… …
