Despairing vs Desperate - What's the difference?
despairing | desperate |
Feeling, expressing, or caused by despair; hopeless.
A mood or display of despair.
* (Thomas Carlyle)
Being filled with, or in a state of despair; hopeless.
* (William Shakespeare)
* , chapter=16
, title= Without regard to danger or safety; reckless; furious.
* Macaulay
Beyond hope; causing despair; extremely perilous; irretrievable.
Extreme, in a bad sense; outrageous.
* (William Shakespeare)
* Macaulay
Extremely intense.
As adjectives the difference between despairing and desperate
is that despairing is feeling, expressing, or caused by despair; hopeless while desperate is being filled with, or in a state of despair; hopeless.As a verb despairing
is present participle of lang=en.As a noun despairing
is a mood or display of despair.despairing
English
Adjective
(-)Verb
(head)Noun
(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.
desperate
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Since his exile she hath despised me most, / Forsworn my company and rail'd at me, / That I am desperate of obtaining her.
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=“[…] She takes the whole thing with desperate seriousness. But the others are all easy and jovial—thinking about the good fare that is soon to be eaten, about the hired fly, about anything.”}}
- desperate expedients
- a desperate offendress against nature
- the most desperate of reprobates