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Brokenhearted vs Despairing - What's the difference?

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As adjectives the difference between brokenhearted and despairing

is that brokenhearted is grieved and disappointed, especially with the loss or repudiation of a romantic relationship while despairing is feeling, expressing, or caused by despair; hopeless.

As a verb despairing is

present participle of lang=en.

As a noun despairing is

a mood or display of despair.

brokenhearted

English

Adjective

  • Grieved and disappointed, especially with the loss or repudiation of a romantic relationship.

    • See also

    * heartbroken * heartbreak * heartbreaker * break someone's heart

    despairing

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Feeling, expressing, or caused by despair; hopeless.

    • Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A mood or display of despair.
  • * (Thomas Carlyle)
    • But what things soever passed in him, when he ceased to see it; what ragings and despairings soever Teufelsdrockh's soul was the scene of, he has the goodness to conceal under a quite opaque cover of Silence.