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

  • (..) Probably won't get in, so... I'll go to Davis and visit you every day. ...now I want Spirits to enforce, art to enchant, And my ending is despair, Unless I be relieved by prayer, which pierces so that it assaults mercy itself and frees all faults. As you from crimes would (..)
    2017 Lady Bird
  • (..) Everybody says don't walk on the grass ♪ ♪ Rolling along! ♪ ♪ Make me a channel of your peace ♪ ♪ Where there's despair in life let me bring hope ♪ ♪ Where there is darkness only light / and where there’s sadness ever joy ♪ ♪ There are giants in the sky. ♪ (..)
    2017 Lady Bird