Despair

Verb

 * 1)  To give up as beyond hope or expectation; to despair of.
 * 2)  To cause to despair.
 * 3)  To be hopeless; to have no hope; to give up all hope or expectation.

Noun

 * 1) Loss of hope; utter hopelessness; complete despondency.
 * He turned around in despair, aware that he was not going to survive
 * 1) That which is despaired of.

Adjectives for Despair
absolute; pessimistic; calm; tragic; mute; mild; stolid; endless; unending; savage; dim; sick; grim; appalling; sudden; dismal; irremediable; human; dumb; crushed; whimsical, comfortless; comical; sham;

Synonyms for Despair
desperation, despondency, hopelessness, discouragement, sadness, depression, dejection.

Antonyms for Despair
hope, ambition, courage, trust, expectation, confidence, cheerfulness, faith, expectancy, encouragement, elation, anticipation, assurance.

Thesaurus
Schmerz, Slough of Despond, abandon, abandon hope, acedia, aching heart, agony, agony of mind, anguish, apathy, bale, become suicidal, bitterness, blank despondency, bleeding heart, broken heart, cave of Trophonius, cave of despair, crushing, death wish, dejectedness, dejection, depression, depth of misery, desolation, despair of, desperateness, desperation, despond, despondency, despondentness, disconsolateness, discouragement, disheartenment, dispiritedness, distress, down trip, downcastness, downer, downheartedness, droop, drooping spirits, drop, extremity, falter, forlornness, give up, give up hope, give way, gloom, gloominess, grief, heartache, heartlessness, heavy heart, hit rock bottom, hopelessness, infelicity, languish, lose heart, lose hope, low spirits, lowness, lowness of spirit, malaise, melancholia, melancholy, miserableness, misery, no exit, no way, no way out, oppression, pessimism, plumb the depths, prostration, quit, reach the depths, relinquish, renounce, resign, resignation, sadness, self-destructive urge, sink, sink into despair, sinking heart, sloth, spiritlessness, suicidal despair, surrender, taedium vitae, touch bottom, weariness of life, woe, wretchedness, yield, yield to despair

Verb

 * Bulgarian: отчайвам се
 * Hebrew: התייאש
 * Latin: despero


 * Romanian:
 * Spanish:


 * Bulgarian: отчайвам
 * German:


 * Hebrew: ייאש


 * Bulgarian: губя надежда
 * Czech:
 * Dutch: wanhopen
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:


 * German:
 * Norwegian: fortvile
 * Polish:
 * Romanian: despera
 * Swedish:

Noun

 * Arabic: يأس (ya's)
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: desesperació
 * Chinese: 绝望 (jue wang)
 * Czech:
 * Esperanto: despero
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:


 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 絶望 (ぜつぼう、zetsubō)
 * Korean: 절망
 * Lithuanian: neviltis
 * Norwegian: frustrasjon
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Spanish:
 * West Frisian:

Anagrams

 * aspired
 * diapers
 * praised