despair
despair is a 7-letter English word with 8 senses as intransitive verb, transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To be hopeless; to have no hope; to give up all hope or expectation; -- often with of. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- intransitive verb. To be hopeless; to have no hope; to give up all hope or expectation; -- often with of.
- transitive verb. To give up as beyond hope or expectation; to despair of.
- transitive verb. To cause to despair.
- noun. Loss of hope; utter hopelessness; complete despondency.
- noun. That which is despaired of.
- noun. the feeling that everything is wrong and nothing will turn out well
"they moaned in despair and dismay"
"one harsh word would send her into the depths of despair"
- noun. a state in which all hope is lost or absent
"in the depths of despair"
"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!"
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Anagrams
Other playable words that use exactly the letters in despair:
aspired, diapers, diasper, pardesi, praised, presaid
Common word forms
despairs, despaired, despairer, despairful, despairing
Words from these letters
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