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Word Meanings - DESPAIRING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Feeling or expressing despair; hopeless. -- De*spair"ing*ly, adv. -- De*spair"ing*ness, n.

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  • DARKEN
    Etym: 1. To make dark or black; to deprite of light; to obscure; as, a darkened room. They covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened. Ex. x. 15. So spake the Sovran Voice; and clouds began To darken all the hill. Milton.
  • HAPLESS
    Without hap or luck; luckless; unfortunate; unlucky; unhappy; as, hapless youth; hapless maid. Dryden.
  • DARREIN
    Last; as, darrein continuance, the last continuance.
  • DARKNESS
    1. The absence of light; blackness; obscurity; gloom. And darkness was upon the face of the deep. Gen. i. 2. 2. A state of privacy; secrecy. What I tell you in darkness, that speak ye in light. Matt. x. 27. 3. A state of ignorance or
  • DARING
    Boldness; fearlessness; adventurousness; also, a daring act.
  • DESPAIRING
    Feeling or expressing despair; hopeless. -- De*spair"ing*ly, adv. -- De*spair"ing*ness, n.
  • DARE
    To have adequate or sufficient courage for any purpose; to be bold or venturesome; not to be afraid; to venture. I dare do all that may become a man; Who dares do more is none. Shak. Why then did not the ministers use their new law Bacause they
  • DARKENING
    Twilight; gloaming. Wright.
  • DARLINGTONIA
    A genus of California pitcher plants consisting of a single species. The long tubular leaves are hooded at the top, and frequently contain many insects drowned in the secretion of the leaves.
  • DESPONDENCY
    The state of desponding; loss of hope and cessation of effort; discouragement; depression or dejection of the mind. The unhappy prince seemed, during some days, to be sunk in despondency. Macaulay.
  • DARER
    One who dares or defies.
  • DARKLING
    In the dark. So, out went the candle, and we were left darkling. Shak. As the wakeful bird Sings darkling. Milton.
  • DARKLE
    To grow dark; to show indistinctly. Thackeray.
  • RECKLESS
    1. Inattentive to duty; careless; neglectful; indifferent. Chaucer. 2. Rashly negligent; utterly careless or heedless. It made the king as reckless as them diligent. Sir P. Sidney. Syn. -- Heedless; careless; mindless; thoughtless; negligent;
  • DARR
    The European black tern.
  • ABANDON
    To relinquish all claim to; -- used when an insured person gives up to underwriters all claim to the property covered by a policy, which may remain after loss or damage by a peril insured against. Syn. -- To give up; yield; forego; cede; surrender;
  • FURIOUS
    1. Transported with passion or fury; raging; violent; as, a furious animal. 2. Rushing with impetuosity; moving with violence; as, a furious stream; a furious wind or storm. Syn. -- Impetuous; vehement; boisterous; fierce; turbulent; tumultuous;
  • AUDACIOUSNESS
    The quality of being audacious; impudence; audacity.
  • DARWINIAN
    Pertaining to Darwin; as, the Darwinian theory, a theory of the manner and cause of the supposed development of living things from certain original forms or elements. Note: This theory was put forth by Darwin in 1859 in a work entitled "The Origin
  • DARG; DARGUE
    A day's work; also, a fixed amount of work, whether more or less than that of a day.
  • SOLIDARE
    A small piece of money. Shak.
  • PANDARISM
    See SWIFT
  • PANDARIZE
    To pander.
  • CEDARN
    Of or pertaining to the cedar or its wood.
  • GENDARMERY
    The body of gendarmes.
  • REDARGUE
    To disprove; to refute; toconfute; to reprove; to convict. How shall I . . . suffer that God should redargue me at doomsday, and the angels reproach my lukewarmness Jer. Taylor. Now this objection to the immediate cognition of external objects has,
  • ZEMINDARY; ZEMINDARI
    See ZAMINDARY
  • HEBDOMADARY
    A member of a chapter or convent, whose week it is to officiate in the choir, and perform other services, which, on extraordinary occasions, are performed by the superiors.
  • INDETERMINABLE
    Not determinable; impossible to be determined; not to be definitely known, ascertained, defined, or limited. -- In`de*ter"mi*na*bly, adv.
  • PINDARICAL
    Pindaric. Too extravagant and Pindarical for prose. Cowley.
  • BORDAR
    A villein who rendered menial service for his cottage; a cottier. The cottar, the bordar, and the laborer were bound to aid in the work of the home farm. J. R. Green.
  • RESSALDAR
    In the Anglo-Indian army, a native commander of a ressala.
  • STANDARD
    The proportion of weights of fine metal and alloy established by authority. By the present standard of the coinage, sixty-two shillings is coined out of one pound weight of silver. Arbuthnot. (more info) extendere to spread out, extend,
  • OVERDARE
    To dare too much or rashly; to be too daring.

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