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Despairing vs Inconsolable - What's the difference?

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Despairing is a related term of inconsolable.


As adjectives the difference between despairing and inconsolable

is that despairing is feeling, expressing, or caused by despair; hopeless while inconsolable is not consolable.

As a verb despairing

is .

As a noun despairing

is a mood or display of despair.

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.

    inconsolable

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Not consolable

    • Derived terms

    * inconsolability * inconsolableness * inconsolably ----