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despair

Definition

  • noun: the feeling of no longer having any hope
  • verb: to lose all hope or confidence
  • verb: to no longer have any hope or belief that a situation will improve or change
  • + 'of'
  • synonyms: despond, hopelessness, desperation

Examples

  • This latest setback has brought/carried/driven her 'to the depths of despair'.

  • We had begun to 'despair of' ever finding a house we could afford.

  • The people were 'driven to despair' by the horrors of war.

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) by the time the last petal fell... the spell would be broken. If not, he would be doomed to remain a beast for all time. As the years passed... he fell into despair and lost all hope. For who could ever learn to love a beast? (ROOSTER CALLING) (SINGING) Little town (..)
    2017 Beauty and the Beast