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verb-intransitive. To lose all hope: despaired of reaching shore safely.

verb-intransitive. To be overcome by a sense of futility or defeat.

n. Complete loss of hope.

n. One despaired of or causing despair: unmotivated students that are the despair of their teachers.

v. To give up as beyond hope or expectation; to despair of.

v. To cause to despair.

v. To be hopeless; to have no hope; to give up all hope or expectation.

n. Loss of hope; utter hopelessness; complete despondency.

n. That which is despaired of.

verb-intransitive. To be hopeless; to have no hope; to give up all hope or expectation; -- often with of.

v. To give up as beyond hope or expectation; to despair of.

v. To cause to despair.

n. Loss of hope; utter hopelessness; complete despondency.

n. That which is despaired of.

To lose hope; be without hope; give up all hope or expectation: followed by of before an object.

Synonyms Despair, Despond. See despond.

To give up hope of; lose confidence in.

To cause to despair; deprive of hope.

n. Hopelessness; a hopeless state; utter lack of hope or expectation.

n. That which causes hopelessness; that of which there is no hope.

n. Synonyms Despondency, Despair, Desperation. Despondency is a loss of hope sufficient to produce a loss of courage and a disposition to relax or relinquish effort, the despondent person tending to sink into spiritless inaction. Despair means a total loss of hope; despondency does not. Despair naturally destroys courage and stops all effort, but may produce a new kind of courage and fierce activity founded upon the sense that there is nothing worse to be feared. In this despair is akin to desperation, which is an active state and always tends to produce a furious struggle against adverse circumstances, even when the situation is utterly hopeless.

v. abandon hope; give up hope; lose heart

n. a state in which all hope is lost or absent

n. the feeling that everything is wrong and nothing will turn out well

"Consequently, to be able to despair is an infinite advantage, and yet to be in despair is not only the worst misfortune and misery — no, it is ruination."

despaired    despairing    despairs   

condition    status   

despond   

despond    hopelessness    desperation    despondency    depression   

Adair    Aer    Altair    Astaire    Ayre    Baer    Bear    Blair    Cher    Clair   

grief    terror    anger    sadness    distress    shame    dismay    joy    panic    disgust