noun
definition
Loss of hope; utter hopelessness; complete despondency.
example
He turned around in despair, aware that he was not going to survive
definition
That which causes despair.
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That which is despaired of.
verb
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To give up as beyond hope or expectation; to despair of.
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To cause to despair.
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(often with “of”) To be hopeless; to have no hope; to give up all hope or expectation.
Examples of despair in a Sentence
A few positive words can turn despair into hope.
She put her face in her hands to hide the despair it would show.
Despair washed over her, but she forced herself to concentrate.
In fact, I now look at them in quiet despair.
This left them in a state of hopeless despair in which they desired to know what they should do next.
She shuddered, despair creeping through her again.
Don't despair, Your Choice Media has a solution to your needs.
Now, when I look around and listen to humanity-driven news, I despair, I really do.
Until that point, eminent success lay just around the corner; now, absent any leads, a wave of despair descended over me like a blanket of morning fog.
Conversely, if God cares for men, despair is impossible.
Well, don't despair, help is at hand and we're not talking about microwave meals.
One man says, in his despair or indifference to life, take up a handful of the earth at your feet, and paint your house that color.
As much despair as she felt for each of the forty-three deaths, there would be nothing but doom, disease, and death for her people if she did not stay alive.
A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind.
I sometimes despair of getting anything quite simple and honest done in this world by the help of men.
It was a despair he'd felt in the catacombs, when he'd seen nothing but death as his fate.
In her half-asleep despair, she was convinced no one but the Deans would even believe her.
No Roman slave, he says, "needed to despair of becoming both a freeman and a citizen."
In despair she had dropped the subject for the time, only to renew it at the first opportunity.
Something within Katie snapped at the despair in Deidre's voice.
Can he look up at its colossal evil without once feeling despair?
Flourishing his arms in despair the count left the room without replying.
The black memories that made him wake up screaming at night, the fear he could still taste in moments of despair, were softened by the sense of stillness that settled into him.
It is a ray of light in the darkness, a shade between sadness and despair, showing the possibility of consolation.
To this course Napoleon consented, to the despair of King Victor Emmanuel and Cavour, who saw in this a proof that he wished to back out of his engagement and make war impossible.
Alvaro then sees that it is Leonora and, in absolute despair, throws himself off a nearby cliff.
She barely recognized the feral look on his face, and despair slid through her.
So the peshwa ventured to take part in the combination against the British power, which even yet the Mahrattas did not despair of overthrowing.
Her gaze went to the safe again, the despair within her swirling.
Pierre no longer suffered moments of despair, hypochondria, and disgust with life, but the malady that had formerly found expression in such acute attacks was driven inwards and never left him for a moment.
The individual's happiness is indeed unattainable either here and now or hereafter and in the future, but he does not despair of ultimately releasing the Unconscious from its sufferings.
In her despair she turned for comfort and counsel to Sainte-Beuve, now constituted her regular father confessor.
This article expressed despair of the success of the British arms in Spain, and Scott at once withdrew his subscription, the Quarterly being soon afterwards started in opposition.
Princess Mary wrote that she was in despair at the misunderstanding that had occurred between them.
This has obscured the fact that the inner history of antiquity, ending as it did in despair of this world, must in any event have seen a recurrence of barbarism.
In fact they were experiencing a complete range of unseen emotions from hysteria, through delight to utter despair.
That tremulous expression on Natasha's face, prepared either for despair or rapture, suddenly brightened into a happy, grateful, childlike smile.
Her laughter turned quickly to despair.
Liberals were by no means inclined to despair of accomplishing this task...
Every year since her marriage Anne had given birth to a child, and Henry had no reason to despair of more; while, if Henry's state of health was such as was reported, the desire for children, which Anne shared with him, may be urged as an argument for her guilt.
We should impart our courage, and not our despair, our health and ease, and not our disease, and take care that this does not spread by contagion.
She recalled his long sad and severe look at those words and understood the meaning of the rebuke and despair in that protracted gaze.
In the dark years that followed it was the indomitable courage of Queen Louise that helped the weak king not to despair of the state.
Is there despair at the lack of true indie labels in the UK at the moment?
Natasha cried angrily, in a voice of despair and repressed irritation.
It drove her to final despair.
Can I offer you my deep, deep despair, on this very bad day?
His despair was all the greater from feeling that his own weakness was the cause of his grief.
Shortly afterwards, however, led by unfavourable omens to despair of final success, he killed himself on his daughter's tomb.
Though he concealed the fact under a show of irritation and contempt, he was evidently in despair that the sole remaining chance of verifying his theory by a huge experiment and proving its soundness to the whole world was slipping away from him.