Despairing
Antonyms of DESPAIRING
- cheery, exultant, merry, heartening, jovial, animated, jubilant, fair, entranced, joyful, propitious, gladdened, cheering, encouraged, favorable, ecstatic, sprightly, visionary, rosy, delighted, gleeful, hopeful, chipper, Pollyanna, euphoric, idealist, buoyant, glad, jolly, jaunty, comforting, perky, rose-colored, confident, blithe, blissful, good, optimistic, romantic, mirthful, blithesome, gladsome, Panglossian, auspicious, exhilarated, heartened, promising, elated, exuberant, bright, lively, vivacious, encouraging, utopian, Sprightful, pollyannaish, happy, likely, upbeat, sunny, cheerful, jocund, enraptured, expectant, lightsome, reassuring, joyous, positive, golden.
Examples of usage:
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And I to have a despairing hope that I come yet with Mine Own into the safety of the Circle. "The Night Land" by William Hope Hodgson
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I was astonished to find him so despairing. "How I Found Livingstone" by Sir Henry M. Stanley
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The Chevalier burst into a despairing laugh, " Wine! "The Grey Cloak" by Harold MacGrath