despairful
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /dɪˈspɛːfəl/
- Hyphenation: des‧pair‧ful
Adjective
despairful (comparative more despairful, superlative most despairful)
- Characterised by despair; hopeless.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: Printed [by John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book II, canto XII:
- […] wretches, whose vnhappie cace, / After lost credite and consumed thrift, / At last them driuen hath to this despairefull drift.
- 1896, H. G. Wells, The Island of Doctor Moreau, Chapter 5,
- The captain went forward interfering rather than assisting. I was alternately despairful and desperate.
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