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Synonyms for despairing
adj upset, despondent- grief-stricken
- melancholic
- melancholy
- pessimistic
- suicidal
- blue
- dejected
- depressed
- oppressed
- sunk
- anxious
- at end of one's rope
- brokenhearted
- can't win
- cynical
- desperate
- disconsolate
- downcast
- forlorn
- frantic
- hopeless
- in pain
- in the dumps
- in the pits
- in the soup
- inconsolable
- miserable
- no-win
- not a prayer
- sad
- shot down
- strabilious
- weighed down
- wretched
Antonyms for despairing
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the
Philip Lief Group.
desperate
adjective. hopeless
despondent
adjective. depressed
disconsolate
adjective. depressed, unhappy
- bad
- black
- blue
- cheerless
- cold
- comfortless
- crestfallen
- crushed
- dark
- dejected
- desolate
- despairing
- destroyed
- dispirited
- distressed
- doleful
- down
- downcast
- downhearted
- dreary
- forlorn
- gloomy
- grief-stricken
- heartbroken
- hopeless
- hurting
- in pain
- in the pits
- inconsolable
- low
- melancholy
- miserable
- ripped
- sad
- somber
- sorrowful
- torn-up
- woebegone
- woeful
- wretched
forlorn
adjective. hopeless, inconsolable
- abandoned
- alone
- bereft
- blue
- cheerless
- comfortless
- cynical
- defenseless
- depressed
- deserted
- desolate
- despairing
- desperate
- despondent
- destitute
- destroyed
- disconsolate
- down and out
- dragging
- forgotten
- forsaken
- friendless
- fruitless
- futile
- godforsaken
- helpless
- homeless
- in the dumps
- lonely
- lonesome
- lost
- miserable
- oppressed
- pathetic
- pessimistic
- pitiable
- pitiful
- solitary
- tragic
- unhappy
- vain
- weighed down
- woebegone
- wretched
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the
Philip Lief Group.