Brokenhearted vs Despairing - What's the difference?
brokenhearted | despairing | Related terms |
Grieved and disappointed, especially with the loss or repudiation of a romantic relationship.
Feeling, expressing, or caused by despair; hopeless.
A mood or display of despair.
* (Thomas Carlyle)
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
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See also
* heartbroken * heartbreak * heartbreaker * break someone's heartdespairing
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(en noun)- 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.