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Despairing vs Irrecoverable - What's the difference?

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Despairing is a related term of irrecoverable.


As adjectives the difference between despairing and irrecoverable

is that despairing is feeling, expressing, or caused by despair; hopeless while irrecoverable is not recoverable or admitting of recovery; incapable of being recovered: as, an irrecoverable debt.

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.

    irrecoverable

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Not recoverable or admitting of recovery; incapable of being recovered: as, an irrecoverable debt.
  • That cannot be recovered from or made good; irremediable; as an irrecoverable disease; irrecoverable danger.

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