despair
Meaning of despair
noun
- Loss of hope; utter hopelessness; complete despondency.
He turned around in despair, aware that he was not going to survive
- That which causes despair.
- That which is despaired of.
- To give up as beyond hope or expectation; to despair of.
- To cause to despair.
- (often with “of”) To be hopeless; to have no hope; to give up all hope or expectation.
Information about despair
- The plural form of despair is: despairs.
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Hyphenation of despair
de-spair
- It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
- despair is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
despair synonyms
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Translation of despair
- French: désespérer, désespoir
- German: verzweifeln, Verzweiflung
- Spanish: desesperar, desesperación
- Italian: disperare, disperazione
Anagrams of despair
aspired, diapers, diasper, pardesi, praised, presaid
Words that rhyme with despair
pair, apair, intrapair, depair, disrepair, irrepair, nonrepair, repair, unrepair, empair, impair, preimpair, unimpair, stereopair, thermopair, appair, dispair, predespair, spair, aupair
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