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Meaning of despairful | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR B2
dɪˈspɛːfəl

Definitions

Characterised by despair; hopeless.

Examples

“[…] wretches, whose vnhappie cace, / After lost credite and consumed thrift, / At last them driuen hath to this despairefull drift.”
“The captain went forward interfering rather than assisting. I was alternately despairful and desperate.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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See also

despairing despeciated despective desperate desperater desperatest

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