despairing

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

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

present participle and gerund of despairform-ofgerundparticiple

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.