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Est. 1828
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Results for
'despairing'
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Words to Describe despairing

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Things despairing often describes ("despairing ________")

  • fit
  • prayer
  • note
  • time
  • vision
  • foe
  • efforts
  • hour
  • days
  • proposals
  • purpose
  • feeling
  • cry
  • manner
  • terror
  • gestures
  • conclusion
  • look
  • remarks
  • way
  • face
  • view
  • appeal
  • pessimism
  • songs
  • situations
  • moods
  • howl
  • person
  • resolve
  • passages
  • gesture
  • cries
  • sinner
  • kind
  • hope
  • moments
  • prospect
  • thoughts
  • party
  • letter
  • voice
  • protest
  • moment
  • situation
  • spirit
  • sound
  • anticipations
  • boy
  • question
  • period
  • englishman
  • mood
  • rush
  • country
  • effort
  • glance
  • advocate
  • signs
  • times
  • king
  • soul
  • tone
  • struggle
  • periods
  • flap
  • deity
  • monster

How despairing often is described ("________ despairing")

  • languid
  • terrible
  • weakly
  • rival
  • hindus
  • longer
  • uncouth
  • dull
  • most
  • morbid
  • angry
  • passionate
  • rough
  • more
  • less
  • truest
  • discontented
  • ragged
  • sad
  • anxious
  • half
  • active
  • nervous
  • nigh
  • grave
  • untaught
  • somewhat
  • oftener
  • pretty
  • vain
  • near
  • long
  • lost
  • wild
  • reckless
  • forlorn
  • confident
  • utter
  • wet
  • french
  • poor
  • final
  • last
  • sadder

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  • tamely
  • stony
  • disillusioned
  • agonizingly
  • aimless
  • apprehensions
  • squeamishly
  • turgid
  • angry
  • dolorous
  • futureless
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