adjective

feeling or showing a hopeless sense that a situation is so bad as to be impossible to deal with.

a desperate sadness enveloped Ruth

despairing,hopeless,anguished,distressed,in despair,suicidal,miserable,wretched,desolate,forlorn,disheartened,discouraged,demoralized,devastated,downcast,resigned,defeatist,pessimistic,distraught,fraught,overcome,out of one’s mind,at one’s wits’ end,beside oneself,at the end of one’s tether,dolorous