📖 despair

noun1 senses

1. the feeling that everything is wrong and nothing will turn out well“they moaned in despair and dismay”
2. a state in which all hope is lost or absent“in the depths of despair”

See also: desperation

verb2 sense

1. abandon hope; give up hope; lose heart“Don't despair--help is on the way!”

💭 Feelings & Moods

← serenity · all Feelings & Moods words · elation →

Where these words come from

Definitions load first from tukuk.org’s own word bank — about 207,000 English word-sense rows built weekly on free GitHub runners from Princeton WordNet (redistributed under its free-use notice with attribution) and frequency-ranked by wordfreq (CC-BY-SA 4.0), the same local index that answers the dictionary tool instantly. Anything the bank does not hold falls back to the free Free Dictionary API, cached a day like every other lookup.