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I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.
Agatha Christie

Meaning of "despairingly" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF DESPAIRINGLY

despairingly  [dɪsˈpeərɪŋlɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DESPAIRINGLY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Despairingly is an adverb.
The adverb is an invariable part of the sentence that can change, explain or simplify a verb or another adverb.

WHAT DOES DESPAIRINGLY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

despairingly

Depression (mood)

Depression is a state of low mood and aversion to activity that can affect a person's thoughts, behavior, feelings and sense of well-being. Depressed people can feel sad, anxious, empty, hopeless, worried, helpless, worthless, guilty, irritable, hurt, or restless. They may lose interest in activities that once were pleasurable, experience loss of appetite or overeating, have problems concentrating, remembering details, or making decisions, and may contemplate, attempt, or commit suicide. Insomnia, excessive sleeping, fatigue, loss of energy, or aches, pains, or digestive problems may also be present. Depressed mood is not always a psychiatric disorder. It may also be a normal reaction to certain life events, a symptom of some medical conditions, or a side effect of some drugs or medical treatments. Depressed mood is also a primary or associated feature of certain psychiatric syndromes such as clinical depression.

Definition of despairingly in the English dictionary

The definition of despairingly in the dictionary is in a despairing manner.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH DESPAIRINGLY


alluringly
əˈlʊərɪŋlɪ
bewilderingly
bɪˈwɪldərɪŋlɪ
blisteringly
ˈblɪstərɪŋlɪ
daringly
ˈdeərɪŋlɪ
endearingly
ɪnˈdɪərɪŋlɪ
enduringly
ɪnˈdjʊərɪŋlɪ
flatteringly
ˈflætərɪŋlɪ
glaringly
ˈɡlɛərɪŋlɪ
inquiringly
ɪnˈkwaɪərɪŋlɪ
inspiringly
ɪnˈspaɪərɪŋlɪ
overbearingly
ˌəʊvəˈbeərɪŋlɪ
overpoweringly
ˌəʊvəˈpaʊərɪŋlɪ
quiveringly
ˈkwɪvərɪŋlɪ
reassuringly
ˌriːəˈʃʊərɪŋlɪ
sparingly
ˈspɛərɪŋlɪ
unflatteringly
ʌnˈflætərɪŋlɪ
untiringly
ʌnˈtaɪərɪŋlɪ
unwaveringly
ʌnˈweɪvərɪŋlɪ
wearingly
ˈwɛərɪŋlɪ
wonderingly
ˈwʌndərɪŋlɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DESPAIRINGLY

despair
despairer
despairful
despairing
despatch
despatcher
Despenser
desperado
desperate
desperately
desperateness
desperation
despicability
despicable
despicableness
despicably
despiritualise
despiritualize
despisable
despisal

WORDS THAT END LIKE DESPAIRINGLY

accordingly
amazingly
astonishingly
correspondingly
exceedingly
increasingly
interestingly
irritatingly
knowingly
livingly
lovingly
overwhelmingly
seemingly
shockingly
sickeningly
singly
strikingly
strongly
stunningly
surprisingly
willingly

Synonyms and antonyms of despairingly in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «despairingly» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF DESPAIRINGLY

Find out the translation of despairingly to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of despairingly from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «despairingly» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

绝望
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

desesperación
570 millions of speakers

English

despairingly
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

मायूसी
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

بيأس
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

отчаянии
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

despairingly
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

হতাশ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

désespérément
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Berputus asa
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

verzweifelt
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

絶望的に
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

절망적
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Ora sabar
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

tuyệt vọng
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

சன்னிகளை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

निराशेने
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

çaresizce
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

despairingly
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

rozpaczą
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

розпачі
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

disperat
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

απελπισία
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

moedeloos
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

förtvivlat
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

fortvilet
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of despairingly

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DESPAIRINGLY»

The term «despairingly» is quite widely used and occupies the 44.306 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «DESPAIRINGLY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «despairingly» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «despairingly» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about despairingly

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2 QUOTES WITH «DESPAIRINGLY»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word despairingly.
1
Agatha Christie
I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.
2
Agatha Christie
I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DESPAIRINGLY»

Discover the use of despairingly in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to despairingly and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Life and Faith: Psychological Perspectives on Religious ...
Then comes defiance, which really is despair by the aid of the eternal, the despairing abuse of the eternal in the self to the point of being despairingly determined to be oneself. But just because it is despair by the aid of the eternal, it lies in a ...
W. W. Meissner, 1987
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The Wisdom of Kierkegaard
(2) Thedespair of willing despairingly tobeoneself— defiance. As itwas shown thatone mightcall the despairdealt with in section 1 the despair of womanliness, so onemight call the despair now to be considered the despair of manliness.
Soren Kierkegaard, 2013
3
Sickness Unto Death
He can thus distinguish conscious despair from unconscious despair in the following way: the self in a state of conscious despair is despairingly conscious of himself and, in addition, his despairing self-consciousness is conscious of itself; the ...
Robert L. Perkins, 2001
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Autopsia: Self, Death, and God After Kierkegaard and Derrida
The contradiction between despairingly willing and despairingly not willing to be oneself is not primarily a matter of a sketch of a consistent explanation of despair as an existential-philosophical basic presupposition. Rather, this is an aporia ...
Marius Timmann Mjaaland, 2008
5
Three plays
[Turns about and looks angrily at Isaac] SILENCE Isaac [looks despairingly at the machine in his hands. Sighs]. It doesn't work, no matter what I do. Baylye [stops suddenly between the table and the bed, and exclaims explosively]. What do you  ...
David Pinski, Isaac Goldberg, 1918
6
Fairy Fingers: A Novel
I ? I ? " replied M. de Bois, trying to speak calmly ; but, finding the attempt in vain, he burst forth : " Yes, it is but too true ; I love her with my whole soul ; I love her passionately ; love her despairingly, — ay, despairingly ! " " And why despairingly  ...
Anna Cora Ogden Mowatt Ritchie, 1865
7
A Darkness Descending: A Mystery in Florence
The maths teacher's gaze strayed to the door, then back, despairingly, to the pile of unmarked work on her desk. '80 she said nothing?' Wanda shook her head despairingly. 'I didn't have the time. She ran off. Just dumped the books and bolted ...
Christobel Kent, 2013
8
Existentialism: Basic Writings
A despairing man wants despairingly to be himself. But if he despairingly wants to be himself, he will not want to get rid of himself. Yes, so it seems; but if one inspects more closely, one perceives that after all the contradiction is the same.
Charles B. Guignon, Derk Pereboom, 2001
9
Fear and Trembling and The Sickness Unto Death
Resignation regarded as despair is essentially different from the form, “in despair at not willing to be oneself,” for it wills desperately to be itself—— with exception, however, of one particular, with respect to which it wills despairingly not to be ...
Søren Kierkegaard, 2013
10
Habermas and Theology
... the world' like 'despairingly wanting-to-be-oneself ' (Habermas 2002: 121)? Habermas further wonders how Theunissen knows that 'despairingly wanting-to- be-oneself is part of the human condition: what makes it an anthropological fact?
Nicholas Adams, 2006

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DESPAIRINGLY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term despairingly is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Chinese wife walks streets in underwear with sign saying 'I want to …
'I want to sell my body' reads the handwritten sign in Chinese hung around the neck of the woman as she walks despairingly through the ... «Daily Mail, Jul 15»
2
Watch Sarah Mary Chadwick Perform a Haunting Live Rendition of "I …
... arrangement allows Chadwick's despairingly blunt lyrics to drag themselves out over the forming structure, occasionally even untangling from ... «Rolling Stone Australia, Jul 15»
3
Walker: Praised be technology
... in equal measure, could despairingly capture the dark night of the soul – and it is this latter category that Francis unfortunately casts his dark ... «The Morning Sun, Jul 15»
4
Taiwan's 'Wall-Hugging' Presidential Candidate Takes New York
said a Boston Taiwanese, despairingly, who supports her nonetheless) has excited so much support. Tsai herself claims a fairly representative ... «ChinaFile, Jul 15»
5
Bennett, Lapid rush to back IDF officer in West Bank shooting
“The thing is,” Yatom sums up almost despairingly, “that the brigade commander incident should remind the Israeli public and left-wing and ... «Al-Monitor, Jul 15»
6
Looking Inside Fukushima Prefecture
Despairingly, the melted core is somewhere inside of or outside of the nuclear containment vessels, nobody knows where, an enormous ... «CounterPunch, Jul 15»
7
If London is so wretched, why do so many of us want to live here?
Or, to put it another way, why, in the same week that he wrote despairingly about our capital, did the Guardian commentator Jonathan ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
8
Gambling with my life to back a winner in Bali
Despairingly, I sat down at a small Warung on Legian street and called the only person in Christendom who I knew would be home with his ... «Herald Sun, Jul 15»
9
What I learned from Hugh Grant about overcoming the darkest hour
Despairingly, some are still children, unaware that if they just keep going there will be life beyond the uniform, the teen discomfort, the bullying. «The Daily Telegraph, Jul 15»
10
David Duval's rollercoaster ride from champion to bogey man
... and howk a second shot out of the menacing clutches of the gorse, a swipe most crude amateurs perform on a despairingly regular basis. «Herald Scotland, Jul 15»

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