noun, verb
noun [U] the feeling of having lost all hope:
She uttered a wordless cry of despair. * A deep sense of despair overwhelmed him. * He gave up the struggle in despair. * One harsh word would send her into the depths of despair. * Eventually, driven to despair, he threw himself under a train.
seealsoDESPERATE
IDIOMS
be the despair of sb to make sb worried or unhappy, because they cannot help:
My handwriting was the despair of my teachers.
moreatCOUNSELn.
verb [V] ~ (of sth/sb)
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for despair is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does despair appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — despair appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
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