Word "DESPAIR" Definitions:


Part of Speech:
Noun
Definition:
a state in which all hope is lost or absent
Synonyms:
desperation
Examples:
in the depths of despair
they were rescued from despair at the last minute

Part of Speech:
Verb
Definition:
abandon hope; give up hope; lose heart
Examples:
Don't despair--help is on the way!

Part of Speech:
Noun
Definition:
the feeling that everything is wrong and nothing will turn out well
Examples:
they moaned in despair and dismay
one harsh word would send her into the depths of despair

Crossword Clues for DESPAIR

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In the end, sad article suggests couple lose hope The Times Quick Cryptic 26 Aug 2025
Lose or be without hope (7) Mirror Classic 25 Aug 2025
Aspired to disperse despondency The Telegraph Cryptic 14 Aug 2025
Hopelessness wrongly praised The Sun Two Speed 24 Jul 2025
Misery The Sun Two Speed 24 Jul 2025
Don't have a hope of speaking French. Paris is out. (7)
Lose hope of getting wildly praised (7)
Anguish of the French couple (7)
Might be praised for its hopelessness (7)
En vacances, some couple in anguish The Telegraph Toughie 10 Jun 2025
Hopelessness The Sun Two Speed 09 Jun 2025
Complete loss of hope Wall Street Journal 09 Jun 2025
Sense of hopelessness (7)
Misery strangely praised The Sun Two Speed 09 Jun 2025
Lose heart, as pride is damaged (7)
Some Parisian couple's hopelessness The Telegraph Cryptic 20 May 2025
Lose or be without hope Mirror Classic 20 May 2025
Despondency I spread about
'___ is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven': John Donne (7)
Live hope of Des getting a double (7)
Man ahead of couple revealing hopelessness (7)
Padre is about to throw in the towel The Telegraph Toughie 08 Apr 2025
Aspired to change low spirits (7)
Sadness and anguish (7)
Lose all hope of getting praised for it (7)
Hopelessness, so aspired to be different (7)
A spider possibly saved Bruce from it
Lose hope of Des getting a double (7)
Loss of hope of the French couple The Times Quick Cryptic 14 Jan 2025
Paradise lost without a hope? Just the opposite! (7)
Give up hope, feel despondent
Have no hope of finding spring: ride uncertainly around (7)
Loss of all hope (7)
Hopelessness I spread around (7)
The dejection of the French couple (7)
Lose hope, changing diapers
Giant wrho imprisons Christian and Hopeful in Doubting Castle, in The Pilgrim's Progress (7)
Lose hope as pride is destroyed
Gloominess is mistakenly praised (7)
Lose hope of being praised in such a way (7)
Give up a random ride round a resort (7)
Total loss of hope could be praised (7)
I spread it around that hopelessness prevails (7)
In love's absence does couple hit rock bottom? The Times Cryptic 10 Sep 2024
Be hopeless at naming twins
Complete lack of hope, utter ...
Complete absence of hope (7) Puzzler 18 Aug 2024
Misery praised wrongly The Sun Two Speed 29 Jul 2024
Hopelessness The Sun Two Speed 29 Jul 2024
Giant changed diapers (7)
Lose hope when changing diapers
Give up hope of Des getting two of a kind
The hopelessness of the French couple (7)
Lose hope Commuter 01 Jul 2024
When a spider gets entangled, it's hopeless! (7)
Awkward ride around health resort makes one lose hope (7)
Hopelessness The Sun Two Speed 26 Jun 2024
Misery incorrectly praised The Sun Two Speed 26 Jun 2024
Hopelessness entering Dr Matt Fink's second letters on psychic power
Lose hope as couple follows Des (7)
Have no hope of changing diapers (7)
First aider's bitten by angry spider in distress
Utter loss of hope (7)
Hopelessness I spread about (7)
Giant ___, owner of Doubting Castle in Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress (7)
Total loss of hope Mirror Classic 20 May 2024
What makes a spider lose heart? (7)
I spared it because of its hopelessness (7)
Hopeless feeling Universal 03 May 2024
Misery for man getting duck in both innings (7)
Lose heart when couple stands by Des (7)
I spread hopelessness (7)
Aspired to treat despondency (7)
Be without hope
Misery as pride damaged The Sun Two Speed 09 Mar 2024
Praised for hopelessness (7)
Hopelessness The Sun Two Speed 09 Mar 2024
Feel utterly hopeless
Praised, oddly, for anguish Mirror Cryptic 29 Feb 2024
Hopelessness Mirror Quick 29 Feb 2024
Gloominess is wrongly praised (7)
Hopelessness from couple after diet's regularly ignored The Telegraph Cryptic 27 Feb 2024
Hopelessness from couple after diet's regularly ignored (7)
Aspired in a way to helplessness
Total loss of hope Mirror Classic 07 Feb 2024
Hopelessness Universal 01 Feb 2024
Give up hope (7) Puzzler 31 Jan 2024
Hopelessness of the French couple The Telegraph Cryptic 22 Jan 2024
1936 Vladimir Nabokov book whose protagonist is Hermann Karlovich Mirror Quiz 17 Jan 2024
Some rude spies express gloom (7)
Lose hope as pride's hurt (7)
A Tale of Two Cities: "It was the spring of hope, it was the winter of..." (7)
Woe Eugene Sheffer 10 Oct 2023
Hopelessness of French prince's autobiography reported The Telegraph Cryptic 15 Sep 2023
Hopelessness of the French couple The Telegraph Cryptic 01 Aug 2023
Anguish from Detective Sergeant imprisoning European couple The Telegraph Cryptic 30 May 2023
Loss of hope The Times Concise 18 Apr 2023
Misery The Telegraph Quick 18 Aug 2022
Give up, inside spa, Irish bottles The Telegraph Toughie 13 May 2022
Hopelessness of French husband and wife The Telegraph Cryptic 25 Apr 2022
Woe Eugene Sheffer 01 Feb 2022
Misery of French couple
Hopelessness Universal 31 Oct 2021
Hopelessness Newsday 11 Aug 2021
Hopelessness The Sun Two Speed 27 May 2021
Heartache as pride shattered The Sun Two Speed 27 May 2021
Misery strangely praised The Sun Two Speed 21 May 2021
Complete absence of hope Irish Times Simplex 14 May 2021
Hopelessness The Telegraph Quick 27 Apr 2021
Misery of endless want keeping the old man in
Lose hope The Telegraph Quick 02 Apr 2021
Does loveless couple give up hope?
Lose all hope Universal 27 Mar 2021
'Woe is me!' feeling The Washington Post Sunday 28 Feb 2021
Misery incorrectly praised The Sun Two Speed 03 Feb 2021
Hopelessness of the French couple The Telegraph Cryptic 02 Feb 2021
Paradise Lost, not a complete loss of hope
Misery as pride damaged The Sun Two Speed 07 Oct 2020
Lack hope Irish Times Simplex 05 Sep 2020
Lose hope as pride shattered
Lose hope Thomas Joseph 17 Jul 2020
The complete absence of hope Family Time 25 May 2020
Pain of one of those giants from Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress Irish Times Crosaire 23 May 2020
Absence of hope The Telegraph Quick 21 May 2020
Anguish of the Gascon duo
Lose hope as pride shattered The Sun Two Speed 03 Apr 2020
Padre is wrong to give up hope Irish Times Crosaire 14 Mar 2020
Feeling of hopelessness New York Times 23 Feb 2020
Misery caused by spinning of a spider
Having no love makes couple give up hope
Fall of Man essentially in ‘Paradise Lost' causes anguish 
Disaster spread, India in gloom
Some French couple lose heart The Telegraph Toughie 06 Dec 2019
Give up The Telegraph Quick 24 Nov 2019
Complete loss of hope The Times Concise 19 Aug 2019
Give up all hope USA Today 17 Aug 2019
Having no hope of fixing 24
Lose or lack hope Irish Times Simplex 28 Jun 2019
Total loss of hope The Times Concise 26 Jun 2019
Old man in need mostly, give up
Misery as pride shattered The Telegraph Cryptic 05 Feb 2019
Lose heart, as pride injured
Give up all hope
Criminal spared — I lose hope
Hopelessness of the French couple The Telegraph Toughie 02 Oct 2018
Feeling as pride is shattered? The Telegraph Cryptic 04 Jul 2018
Loss of hope in the French couple The Telegraph Cryptic 11 Jun 2018
'… in Idleness alone is there perpetual ____' (Thomas Carlyle) The Times Specialist Sunday 10 Jun 2018
Lose heart, having endless need to accommodate dad ... The Telegraph Cryptic 02 Jun 2018
Misery as pride shattered The Sun Two Speed 03 May 2018
Lose heart, as pride injured
. Sped away bearing gloom
Hopelessness of father exhibited in want for the most part
Despondency The Telegraph Quick 05 Feb 2018
Hopelessness of French couple following son The Telegraph Cryptic 09 Jan 2018
Abandon hope (especially after daughter gets gas)
The padre is sunk in gloom
Abandon hope as a spider runs out The Telegraph Cryptic 29 Nov 2017
Some from Provence with piano tune conveying gloom
Aspired to become a literary giant
Being wrongly praised is what people hopefully avoid The Telegraph Cryptic 30 Apr 2017
Give up, man, and get married! The Times Cryptic 03 Mar 2017
Give up, man, and get married!
Turned free to shroud recess in gloom
Misery guts in tiresome couple supporting daughter The Times Cryptic 11 Oct 2016
Misery guts in tiresome couple supporting daughter
No hope of French couple's son getting ahead
Misery for some French couple
Don't have hope of speaking French. Paris is out The Telegraph Toughie 12 May 2016
Bunyan's giant aspired to reform The Times Cryptic 28 Apr 2016
Want briefly to retain secretary but lose heart
Lose all hope The Times Concise 12 Mar 2016
Lack of hope The Telegraph Quick 04 Mar 2016
Literary giant‘s novel is read outside Portugal
Give up LA Times Daily 13 Dec 2015
'The shadow of a starless night,' per Percy Bysshe Shelley New York Times 11 Dec 2015
Dejection shown by the old man beset by endless longing The Telegraph Toughie 04 Nov 2015
Praised (anag.) The Telegraph Quick 04 Nov 2015
Some French couple in a hopeless state The Telegraph Cryptic 03 Nov 2015
Absence of hope The Sun Two Speed 01 Nov 2015
Is padre about to give up hope? The Sun Two Speed 01 Nov 2015
Beginning to doubt psychic power, express loss of hope
Some French marry but don't expect to be happy
Praised doctor in Misery Irish Times Crosaire 02 May 2015
Sped away bearing a sense of hopelessness
Abandon hope of the French match
Give up
"The shadow of a starless night," per Percy Bysshe Shelley
Lose hope
Hopelessness from French couple
Heartache
Low state
Lose hope
Lose all hope
Lose hope
Hopeless feeling
Lose heart
Hopelessness
Hopeless
Bad thing to sink into
Hopelessness
Very blue state
Very blue state
Lose heart
Lose heart
Abandon hope
Heartache
Lose heart
___, Inc. (company that sells demotivational posters)
Down state
Down state
Lose heart
Hopeless feeling
Abandon hope
Bad thing to sink into
Abandon hope
Give up all hope
Hopeless feeling
Hopelessness
Hopelessness
Loss of hope
Give up hope
Give up hope
Give up hope
Film noir feature
Give up all hope
Lose hope
Grief
Give up
Gloom
Give up hope
Postloss reaction, sometimes
Loss of hope.
Giant who lives in Doubting Castle.
Slough of despond.
Giant in Pilgrim's Progress.
"Doubt is brother-devil to ___."—O'Reilly.
Giant in "Pilgrim's Progress."
"Shall I wasting in ___ . . . "
Giant of Doubting Castle.
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