Despairing and Visionary

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Despairing adjective - Emphasizing or expecting the worst.

Usage example: despairing predictions regarding the effects of global overpopulation

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Visionary is an antonym for despairing.

Nearby Words: despair, despairingly, despaired

Visionary adjective - Having or marked by a tendency to be guided more by ideals than by reality.

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Despairing is an antonym for visionary.

Nearby Words: vision, visional

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Visionary and Despairing. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 14, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/despairing/visionary

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