Despair is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for DESPAIR in dictionary:

VERB:
• to lose all hope
• lose or be without hope
• To be hopeless; to have no hope; to give up all hope or expectation; -- often with of.
• To give up as beyond hope or expectation; to despair of.
• To cause to despair.
• abandon hope; give up hope; lose heart
• lose hope
NOUN:
• the complete loss or absence of hope
• total loss of hope
• Loss of hope; utter hopelessness; complete despondency.
• That which is despaired of.
• a state in which all hope is lost or absent
• the feeling that everything is wrong and nothing will turn out well

Words related to DESPAIR

despaired13 despairing14 despairs11

Words that contain DESPAIR

despairs11 despaired13 despairer12 despairers13 despairful16 despairing14 despairingly19 undespairing16 undespairingly21

How to use DESPAIR in a sentence

• The besieged, beholding the fountain suddenly become dry, believed in their despair that it was an intervention of the gods, and, submitting to necessity, surrendered.
• The novice looks on in despair, the experienced driver considers a moment, makes use of the tools and few things he has with him, and goes on.
• He was at this time in one of the chambers of the palace, whither he had fled in despair, and was standing by a fire, for the morning was cold.
• Convinced at last of the uncertainty of the positive sciences, he had fallen into violent despair.
• Rukmini is in despair until she learns that Krishna also has arrived.
• Oh, Norman, for my sake, do not send me back to utter desolation and despair! Do not send me back to coldness and darkness, to sorrow and tears.
• It was sweet, after those long, weary months of humiliation and despair, to lay her head on that faithful breast and hear whispered words of love and affection.
• It converted despair into resignation, and taught men to disdain hope.
• But near a fortnight being elapsed without any of them having appeared, we began to despair of ever meeting them again.
• And when I saw that, a kind of despair came upon me.
• In despair of his life, he vows that, should he reach the shore alive, he will sacrifice the first human being he meets to Neptune.
• To what conclusion did this discovery point? Percy abandoned the attempt to answer that question in despair.
• For I more nearly touched despair than ever before.
• And the iron of a great despair entered into her soul.
• We landed at last safe and sound at Sirmio, but not before all my companions had given up hope, and I myself was beginning to despair.
• He must see into those other windows, and discover the source of the merry laughter that had so suddenly banished his loneliness and despair of a few minutes before.
• But, though disappointed in my expectations, I do not despair.
• If the North had ever felt despair about the war Gettysburg and Vicksburg had removed every trace of it.
• I was sometimes ready to despair, under an idea that her resolution was unconquerable, her virtue impregnable.
• The anguish and disappointment of the lover, and my own despair, may be better imagined than portrayed.
• This man had a look in his eyes like that of an animal that has been hunted to death, and is fain to lie down and give itself up to its pursuers in the despair of utter fatigue.
• But he could do nothing, so at length, giving up in despair, he went down into the cabin, and lighted a fire in the little stove, for he was very chilly.

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