despairingly
English
editEtymology
editFrom despairing + -ly.
Pronunciation
editAdverb
editdespairingly (comparative more despairingly, superlative most despairingly)
- In a despairing manner.
- 1923, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter IV, in Leave It to Psmith:
- It was raining. She was over there, crouched despairingly beneath the awning of that shop. She wanted to be elsewhere, but the moisture lay in wait to damage her hat.