Usually means: Feeling hopeless and deeply discouraged.
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We found 27 dictionaries that define the word despairing:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. despairing: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. despairing: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. despairing: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. despairing: Collins English Dictionary
  5. despairing: Vocabulary.com
  6. Despairing, despairing: Wordnik
  7. despairing: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. despairing: Wiktionary
  9. despairing: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. despairing: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. despairing: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Despairing, despairing: Dictionary.com
  13. despairing: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Despairing: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. despairing: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. despairing: Rhymezone
  17. Despairing: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. despairing: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. despairing: Free Dictionary
  20. despairing: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. despairing: Dictionary/thesaurus

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

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. despairing: Encyclopedia

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

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. despairing: Idioms

(Note: See despair as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Feeling, expressing, or caused by despair; hopeless.
noun:  A mood or display of despair.

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