All despair synonyms
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D d noun despair
- depression — A depression is a time when there is very little economic activity, which causes a lot of unemployment and poverty.
- gloom — total or partial darkness; dimness.
- melancholy — sober thoughtfulness; pensiveness.
- pain — physical suffering or distress, as due to injury, illness, etc.
- desperation — Desperation is the feeling that you have when you are in such a bad situation that you will try anything to change it.
- sorrow — distress caused by loss, affliction, disappointment, etc.; grief, sadness, or regret.
- despondency — Despondency is a strong feeling of unhappiness caused by difficulties which you feel you cannot overcome.
- misery — wretchedness of condition or circumstances.
- discouragement — an act or instance of discouraging.
- anguish — Anguish is great mental suffering or physical pain.
- ordeal — any extremely severe or trying test, experience, or trial.
- dejection — Dejection is a feeling of sadness that you get, for example, when you have just been disappointed by something.
- trial — German Der Prozess. a novel (1925) by Franz Kafka.
- tribulation — grievous trouble; severe trial or suffering.
- wretchedness — very unfortunate in condition or circumstances; miserable; pitiable.
- forlornness — desolate or dreary; unhappy or miserable, as in feeling, condition, or appearance.
- dishearten — to depress the hope, courage, or spirits of; discourage.
- desolation — Desolation is a feeling of great unhappiness and hopelessness.
- hopelessness — providing no hope; beyond optimism or hope; desperate: a hopeless case of cancer.
verb despair
- relinquish — to renounce or surrender (a possession, right, etc.): to relinquish the throne.
- despond — to lose heart or hope; become disheartened; despair
- renounce — to give up or put aside voluntarily: to renounce worldly pleasures.
- drop — a small quantity of liquid that falls or is produced in a more or less spherical mass; a liquid globule.
- yield — to give forth or produce by a natural process or in return for cultivation: This farm yields enough fruit to meet all our needs.
- resign — to give up an office or position, often formally (often followed by from): to resign from the presidency.
- flatten — to make flat.
- abandon — If you abandon a place, thing, or person, you leave the place, thing, or person permanently or for a long time, especially when you should not do so.
- destroy — To destroy something means to cause so much damage to it that it is completely ruined or does not exist any more.
- surrender — to yield (something) to the possession or power of another; deliver up possession of on demand or under duress: to surrender the fort to the enemy; to surrender the stolen goods to the police.
- take down — made or constructed so as to be easily dismantled or disassembled.
- give way — manner, mode, or fashion: a new way of looking at a matter; to reply in a polite way.
- lose heart — to become despondent or disillusioned (over something)