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despair English

Meaning despair meaning

What does despair mean?
Definitions in simple English

despair Noun

— Despair is the opposite of hope.

despair

— noun (= desperation) a state in which all hope is lost or absent in the depths of despair they were rescued from despair at the last minute courage born of desperation — noun the feeling that everything is wrong and nothing will turn out well they moaned in despair and dismay one harsh word would send her into the depths of despair — verb abandon hope; give up hope; lose heart Don't despair--help is on the way!

Synonyms despair synonyms

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despair English » English

desperation hopelessness despondency lose hope lose heart disappointment despond abandonment despondence depression dejected become discouraged pessimism grief gloom give up hope of life give up hope give up dispirited disheartened discouragement desolation depressed dejection brokenheartedness worry wanhope unhappiness trouble surrender sorrow sigh self-abandonment sadness quit prostation moroseness moan misery melancholy melancholic low spirits loss of hope loss of heart lose interest lament in despair groan grieve gloominess

Topics despair topics

What do people use despair to talk about?
Language and thought Emotion Feel bad

Sad
Language and thought Think Expect

Hopeless
Language and thought Emotion Feel bad Afraid

Worried

Conjugation despair conjugation

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despair · verb

Examples despair examples

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Simple sentences

Do not despair, all is not yet lost.
Jack resigned from his job in despair.
He is his teachers' despair.
He fluctuated between hope and despair.
He was in despair over health problems.
She began to despair of success.
She was in despair when her husband died.
Despair drove him to attempt suicide.
When there was despair in the dust bowl and depression across the land, she saw a nation conquer fear itself with a New Deal, new jobs, a new sense of common purpose. Yes, we can.
My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Don't despair, ask Thomas!
It was a cry of despair.
Alcohol took me to the brink of despair.
At last he fell into so great despair that he thought he would put an end to his own life.
He lapsed into despair after that accident.
He came home in despair.
Patience is a minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue.
Tom experienced the whole gamut of emotions from sheer joy to utter despair during his relationship with Mary.
Beethoven's music portrays the whole spectrum of human emotions, from exhilarating joy to deep despair.
Mary was in despair.
I'm in despair!

Movie subtitles

I'll feel uneasy once you get killed for nothing, or when you act out of despair.
Otherwise, Peter, I will despair!
In the convents during the Middle Ages, fear of the Devil escalated into an almost hopeless despair.
Don't despair! Help is on its way.
In despair.
It tore my heart to see you in despair like that.
You were in despair just now.
When I received your letter, did you really think me so dense that I wouldn't sense the despair in your heart?
Doomed to unimaginable despair.
Doomed to bliss or to despair.
He is in despair that he cannot be here.
She sounds like someone who meticulously recorded her descent into despair.
It was only my despair that brought me here.
However, we mustn't despair.
Imagine our despair.
When I stood before her, like the first time, at once I fell in despair.
Don't despair!
I'm in despair. I know everything.
I would always leave them alone in despair.
Madame, you are my despair.
Don't despair, Your Majesty.
I couldn't despair. My little friend, you're like one of our own.
In short, never despair.
That's no reason to despair!
The waves of despair that had you hiding like an animal in a hole.
The valley of despair.
Now, don't despair.
A Parisian only goes to the Tower in moments of despair to jump off.
I don't want to be the woman who drove to despair the great hero, the idol of the masses.
And then we hear the Ave Maria, with its message of the triumph of hope and life over the powers of despair and death.
Oh, don't despair.
It's so nice to run into you here, just when I was beginning to despair of finding any old friends here in Monte.
Poverty is not the lack of anything, but a positive plague, virulent in itself, contagious as cholera, with filth, criminality, vice and despair as only a few of its symptoms.
Haven't you got enough imagination to pretend we're broke, hungry, homeless, drifting in despair?

News and current affairs

In a public gesture of despair, Cherkesov admitted the failure of Putin's project to reanimate Russian governance by subordinating it to the security services.
But before we despair, there is work to be done.
Such an approach would provide the breathing space needed to restore confidence and implement reforms in an atmosphere of moderate optimism rather than despair.
Some years ago the historian Fritz Stern wrote a book about Germany entitled The Politics of Cultural Despair.
The more death, destruction, and despair, the better.
I doubt, however, that celebrities like Miss Bardot will ever recognize the absurdity of their misplaced priorities - to come to a country where millions live in despair and dire conditions, and show concern for only the wild dogs.
Despair is dangerous in diplomacy.
One could despair: the Bush administration has obviously wasted almost seven years during which it could have pursued a solution.
The downturn deepens, and a vicious circle of despair takes hold.
Meanwhile, Egypt's sagging economy, high unemployment rate, and rampant corruption have driven many Egyptian youngsters to despair.
Many people despair of finding their way through the maze of current EU treaties and their numerous amendments.
The answer need not be all despair.
The EU's current lack of unanimity on many world issues, as well as continental issues such as Ukraine, is no reason for despair.
For a region that has suffered so long from frustration and despair over its failures, these are among the best of times.
It will fall to the Union, once again, to help transform despair into hope.
As someone born in the old Soviet Union, I know firsthand the despair and brutality of such attempts.
Indeed, if there were such a thing as a combined index of despair, Colombia would be an undisputed leader.
Where Obama's strategy is weakest is in reaching ordinary people: the networked web of human relationships that transmits rage, hatred, and despair or hope, trust, and loyalty.
These changes have created a new kind of hope and despair among the generation of Chinese now coming of age.
The murderous triumph and bloody defeat of the politics of cultural despair was followed by an economic miracle that made Germany one of the world's most prosperous countries, with nearly six decades of increasingly stable democracy.
However tough things looked in the past, I have never felt such a sense of despair about Palestine and Israel.
Few people expect Corbyn to win a national election in Britain, either; that is why his parliamentary party is in such despair.
Efforts to do so usually ended disastrously. As someone born in the old Soviet Union, I know firsthand the despair and brutality of such attempts.

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