Usually means: In a hopeless, dejected manner.
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We found 20 dictionaries that define the word despairingly:

General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. despairingly: Merriam-Webster
  2. despairingly: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. despairingly: Collins English Dictionary
  4. despairingly: Vocabulary.com
  5. Despairingly, despairingly: Wordnik
  6. despairingly: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. despairingly: Wiktionary
  8. despairingly: Dictionary.com
  9. Despairingly: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. despairingly: Rhymezone
  11. despairingly: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. despairingly: FreeDictionary.org
  13. despairingly: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. despairingly: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. despairingly: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. despairingly: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. despairingly: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. despairingly: Idioms

(Note: See despairing as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (despairingly)

adverb:  In a despairing manner.

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