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All despairingly synonyms

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adv despairingly

  • desperately — reckless or dangerous because of despair, hopelessness, or urgency: a desperate killer.
  • sadly — affected by unhappiness or grief; sorrowful or mournful: to feel sad because a close friend has moved away.
  • dispiritedly — discouraged; dejected; disheartened; gloomy.
  • cynically — If you say that someone is cynically doing something, you mean they are doing it to benefit themselves and they do not care that they are deceiving, harming, or using people.
  • darkly — so as to appear dark.
  • dejectedly — depressed in spirits; disheartened; low-spirited: The dejected expression on the face of the loser spoiled my victory.
  • desolately — barren or laid waste; devastated: a treeless, desolate landscape.
  • despondently — feeling or showing profound hopelessness, dejection, discouragement, or gloom: despondent about failing health.
  • disconsolately — without consolation or solace; hopelessly unhappy; inconsolable: Loss of her pet dog made her disconsolate.
  • dismally — causing gloom or dejection; gloomy; dreary; cheerless; melancholy: dismal weather.
  • self-emptying — containing nothing; having none of the usual or appropriate contents: an empty bottle.
  • gloomily — dark or dim; deeply shaded: gloomy skies.
  • pessimistically — pertaining to or characterized by pessimism or the tendency to expect only bad outcomes; gloomy; joyless; unhopeful: His pessimistic outlook kept him from applying for jobs for which he was perfectly qualified.
  • spiritless — without spirit.

adverb despairingly

  • at a loss — If a business produces something at a loss, they sell it at a price which is less than it cost them to produce it or buy it.
  • miserably — wretchedly unhappy, uneasy, or uncomfortable: miserable victims of war.
  • hopeless — providing no hope; beyond optimism or hope; desperate: a hopeless case of cancer.
  • inconsolably — not able to be comforted or consoled; disconsolate: She was inconsolable when her son died.
  • wretchedly — very unfortunate in condition or circumstances; miserable; pitiable.
  • bleakly — bare, desolate, and often windswept: a bleak plain.
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