despairing

About 1.04 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Feeling, expressing, or caused by despair; hopeless.
2. verb present participle and gerund of despair
3. noun A mood or display of despair.

Similar words

hopeless desperate bereft distraught dire frantic last-ditch despairful desolate despondent

Often followed by

of cry and gesture to look effort at eyes

Word family

despairingly