English

Adjective

despairful ‎(comparative more despairful, superlative most despairful)

1. Characterised by despair; hopeless.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.xii:

     wretches, whose vnhappie cace, / After lost credite and consumed thrift, / At last them driuen hath to this despairefull drift.