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despairful

adj
/dɪˈspɛːfəl/UK

Etymology

From despair + -ful.

  1. derived from despero
  2. derived from desperer
  3. derived from despeir
  4. inherited from dispeir
  5. suffixed as despairful — “despair + ful”

Definitions

  1. Characterised by despair

    Characterised by despair; hopeless.

    • […] wretches, whose vnhappie cace, / After lost credite and consumed thrift, / At last them driuen hath to this despairefull drift.
    • The captain went forward interfering rather than assisting. I was alternately despairful and desperate.

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