Despair is the feeling of not having any hope left. If you completely forgot to study for your final exam in math, you might feel despair when your teacher passes out the test.
To be hopeless; to have no hope; to give up all hope or expectation; -- often with of.
Noun
the feeling that everything is wrong and nothing will turn out well
Noun
a state in which everything seems wrong and will turn out badly; "they were rescued from despair at the last minute"
Verb
abandon hope; give up hope; lose heart; "Don''t despair--help is on the way!"
v. i.
To be hopeless; to have no hope; to give up all hope or
expectation; -- often with of.
v. t.
To give up as beyond hope or expectation; to despair
of.
v. t.
To cause to despair.
n.
Loss of hope; utter hopelessness; complete despondency.
n.
That which is despaired of.
Despair
We despaired even of life.
Never despair of God's blessings here.
Despair
I would not despair the greatest design that could be attempted.2.
Despair
We in dark dreams are tossing to and fro, Pine with regret, or sicken with despair.
Before he [Bunyan] was ten, his sports were interrupted by fits of remorse and despair.2.
To be hopeless; to have no hope; to give up all hope or expectation; -- often with of.
To give up as beyond hope or expectation; to despair of.
Loss of hope; utter hopelessness; complete despondency.
Usage Examples
At its best our age is an age of searchers and discoverers, and at its worst, an age that has domesticated despair and learned to live with it happily.
As the plane got closer to Miami, I had this terrible feeling he was dying. Maybe he was telling me that he was going. I felt anger, panic, despair and helplessness.
Don't despair too much if you see beautiful things destroyed, if you see them perish. Because the best things are always growing in secret.
Courage is not the absence of despair it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.
Despair gives courage to a coward.
Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair a narrow escape into faith.
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Other Usage ExamplesEvery time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.
But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
Black and white are the colors of photography. To me they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected.
Do parents sit down and tell their kids everything? I don't know. I don't know. I've convinced myself - I hope I'm right - that children despair of you if you don't tell them the truth.
American society as a whole can never achieve the outer-reaches of potential, so long as it tolerates the inner cities of despair.
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