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

  • (..) I don't need a visitor. SETH: You're not ill? No. I'm one of the doctors here. Are you in despair? I lost a patient. You did everything you could? I was holding his heart in my hand when he died. Then he wasn't alone. (..)
    1998 City of Angels
  • (..) Where doctors and nurses dedicate their lives... to that wonder which is a human being. ...an ever-changing challenge of love and hope, loneliness and despair. General Hospital on ABC. Doctors and nurses with first names and last names, and tragedies of their own. - Oh, I'm so sorry. - Excuse me. (..)
    2014 Annabelle
  • (..) astray, we have returned. Save for this. Jack! JACK: Not yet. We wait for the opportune moment. we found, but despaired of ever finding the last. When's that? When it's of greatest profit to you? May I ask you something? (..)
    2003 Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl