despairing

adj

1. (not-comparable)Feeling, expressing, or caused by despair; hopeless.

   “He was beginning to forget his burdening, despairing mood of a short while ago.”

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of despair

noun

1. A mood or display of despair.

   “But what things soever passed in him, when he ceased to see it; what ragings and despairings soever Teufelsdröckh's soul was the scene of, he has the goodness to conceal under a quite opaque cover of Silence.”