Concept cluster: Positive qualities > Despairing
adj
Of a person: cast down in hope or spirit; showing utter helplessness, hopelessness, or resignation; also, grovelling; ingratiating; servile.
n
abjection; forlornness
n
The state of being adjourned, or action of adjourning.
n
The quality of being unworthy to hold virtues or value.
adj
Pitiful; miserable; wretched.
n
(non-native speakers' English) Defeatism.
adj
(genetics) Having lower fitness.
adj
Tending or intended to demotivate.
n
(obsolete) disorder; dissoluteness
adj
Removed from a pairing
adv
In a deploring manner.
adv
In a deprived manner.
n
The act of abandoning something, or the state of being abandoned.
adj
Causing desolation.
v
(transitive, obsolete) To give up as beyond hope or expectation; to despair of.
n
A looking down upon.
adj
Being filled with, or in a state of, despair; hopeless.
n
The act of despairing or becoming desperate; a giving up of hope.
n
Lack of a feeling of ease; uneasiness.
adj
Expressing or indicating disappointment.
adv
In a disappointing manner.
n
(countable) Something or someone that disappoints: that which causes disappointment.
v
(obsolete) To discourage; to deject.
n
(obsolete) Disconsolateness.
n
The loss of confidence or enthusiasm.
n
The act of disenchanting or the state of being disenchanted.
n
(archaic) The act of disfurnishing, or the state of being disfurnished.
n
The act of disfurnishing, or the state of being disfurnished.
n
One who or that which disheartens.
v
To give up or lose lustre.
adv
In a dismissing manner; dismissively
n
The removal of order
n
(obsolete) disarrangement; disturbance
n
(obsolete) Lack of complacency or gratification; envious displeasure; dislike.
adv
In a disquiet manner.
adj
Doomed; without hope of recovery.
adj
unhealthy
adj
(obsolete) Making void; rendering null.
n
the lack of hope; despair
n
(obsolete) unquietness
n
unquietness; restlessness
n
(obsolete) strength; health
n
(UK) The act of exempting someone from duty because of injury or ill health.
adj
(law, Scotland) Rendering null and void; conditionally invalidating.
adv
In a manner that loses or will lose.
n
poor condition (used especially of animals)
adj
Pronunciation spelling of miserable. [In a state of misery: very sad, ill, or poor.]
n
(now rare) Discomfort
n
One who is unhappy, or extols being miserable as a virtue; a philosopher of pessimism.
n
miserableness
adj
(obsolete) Causing unhappiness or misery.
n
doubt, apprehension, a feeling of dread
n
(obsolete) Unhappiness; wretchedness; misery.
adj
Unpleasant-looking and causing unwanted attention
adj
In needy circumstances.
adj
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see racially, challenged.
adj
Obsolete form of reckless. [Careless or heedless; headstrong or rash.]
adj
Without rest; unable to be still or quiet; uneasy; continually moving.
n
(obsolete) discomfiture
adj
Uncomfortably over-conscious of one's appearance or behaviour; socially ill at ease.
adj
Obsolete form of tedious. [Boring, monotonous, time-consuming, wearisome.]
adj
Experiencing discomfort.
n
Discomfort, especially uneasiness associated with awkwardness, embarrassment, or self-consciousness.
adj
(rare) Not easy; difficult.
adj
(obsolete or UK, dialect) troublesome; inconvenient
n
Absence or lack of hope; hopelessness; despair.
adv
To an unnerving degree
adj
(obsolete) importunate; troublesome with requests
adj
(especially of equestrianism) Infirm, diseased.
n
The state of being vanquished
n
(countable) A special fondness or desire.
n
Discontentment; sorrow; unhappiness
adv
Less skillfully.

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