Despair (IPA: /dɪˈspɛɹ/)
| Despair (v. i.) |
To be hopeless; to have no hope; to give up all hope or expectation; -- often with of. |
| Despair (v. t.) |
To give up as beyond hope or expectation; to despair of. |
| Despair (v. t.) |
To cause to despair. |
| Despair (n.) |
Loss of hope; utter hopelessness; complete despondency. |
| Despair (n.) |
That which is despaired of. |
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Emotion |
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Band |
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1978 Film directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder |
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Sandman comics character |
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Novel by Vladimir Nabokov |
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Desperation |
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Despair in Spanish |
| Example Sentence (Quote) "* * * then black despair, The shadow of a starless night, was thrown Over the world in which I moved alone." - Despair |
| Example Sentence (Quote) " Alas for him who never sees The stars shine through his cypress-trees Who, hopeless, lays his dead away, Nor looks to see the breaking day Across the mournful marbles play!" - Despair |
| Example Sentence (Quote) " Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair. I remember the killers, I remember the victims, even as I struggle to invent a thousand and one reasons to hope." - Despair |
| Example Sentence (Quote) " Because thou must not dream, thou needst not then despair!" - Despair |
| Example Sentence (Quote) " Bid me despair, and I'll despair, Under that cypress tree: Or bid me die, and I will dare E'en Death, to die for thee. Thou art my life, my love, my heart, The very eyes of me: And hast command of every part, To live and die for thee." - Despair |
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