Definition of despair

"despair" in the noun sense

1. despair, desperation

a state in which all hope is lost or absent

"in the depths of despair"

"they were rescued from despair at the last minute"

"courage born of desperation"

2. despair

the feeling that everything is wrong and nothing will turn out well

"they moaned in despair and dismay"

"one harsh word would send her into the depths of despair"

"despair" in the verb sense

1. despair

abandon hope give up hope lose heart

"Don't despair

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Quotations for despair

Despair is free. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

Despair doubles our powers. [ French Proverb ]

God has prohibited despair. [ Mme. Swetchine ]

Despair is a dauntless hero. [ Holcroft ]

Hope is as cheap as despair. [ Proverb ]

Despair swallows up cowardice. [ Hazlitt ]

Despair is infidelity and death. [ Whittier ]

That last dignity of the wretched. [ Henry Giles ]

Despair gives courage to a coward. [ Proverb ]

'Tis late before the brave despair. [ Thomson ]

Despair is the conclusion of fools. [ Beaconsfield ]

It is late before the brave despair. [ Thomson ]

There is a very life in our despair. [ Byron ]

Despair doth strike as deep a furrow
In the brain as mischief or remorse. [ Barry Cornwall ]

All hope abandon, ye who enter here. [ Dante ]

The world goes whispering to its own,
This anguish pierces to the bone;
And tender friends go sighing round,
What love can ever cure this wound?
My days go on, my days go on. [ E. B. Browning ]

Despair is the greatest of our errors. [ Vauvenargues ]

In idleness there is perpetual despair. [ Carlyle ]

The mild despairing of a heart resigned. [ Coleridge ]

Despair makes victims sometimes victors. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

Love can hope where reason would despair. [ Lyttleton ]

For me - I hold no commerce with despair! [ Dawes ]

Hope is a willing slave; despair is free. [ Dawes ]

Uncertain ways unsafest are.
And doubt a greater mischief than despair. [ Sir John Denham ]

Alas for him who never sees
The stars shine through his cypress-trees!
Who, hopeless, lays his dead away,
Nor looks to see the breaking day
Across the mournful marbles play! [ Whittier ]

My loss is such as cannot be repaired,
And to the wretched, life can be no mercy. [ Dryden ]

Rage is for little wrongs; despair is dumb. [ Hannah More ]

Beware of desperate steps. The darkest day,
Live till tomorrow, will have pass'd away. [ Cowper ]

Farewell hope, and with hope farewell fear;
Farewell remorse; all good to me is lost;
Evil, be thou my good! [ Milton ]

No change, no pause, no hope! Yet I endure. [ Shelley ]

Traverse the desert, and then ye can tell
What treasures exist in the cold deep well,
Sink in despair on the red parch'd earth,
And then ye may reckon what water is worth. [ Miss Eliza Cook ]

Now God be praised, that to believing souls,
Gives light in darkness, comfort in despair! [ William Shakespeare ]

Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean,
Tears from the depth of some divine despair
Rise in the heart and gather in the eyes,
In looking on the happy autumn fields,
And thinking of the days that are no more. [ Alfred Tennyson ]

Consider how the desperate fight;
Despair strikes wild, - but often fatal too -
And in the mad encounter wins success. [ Havard ]

Dreadful is their doom, whom doubt has driven
To censure fate, and pious hope forego. [ Beattie ]

Sick in the world's regard, wretched and low. [ William Shakespeare ]

Lean abstinence, pale grief, and haggard care,
The dire attendants of forlorn despair. [ Pattison ]

O star-eyed Science, hast thou wandered there,
To waft us home the message of despair. [ Campbell ]

I shall despair. There is no creature loves me;
And if I die, no soul shall pity me:
Nay, wherefore should they, since that I myself
Find in myself no pity to myself? [ William Shakespeare ]

Some noble spirits mistake despair for content. [ Willis ]

Unhappy he! who from the first of joys.
Society, cut off, is left alone
Amid this world of death. Day after day.
Sad on the jutting eminence he sits,
And views the main that ever toils below;
Still fondly forming in the farthest verge,
Where the round ether mixes with the wave.
Ships, dim-discovered, dropping from the clouds;
At evening, to the setting sun he turns
A mournful eye, and down his dying heart
Sinks helpless. [ Thomson ]

Despair is a great incentive to honorable death. [ Quintus Curtius Rufus ]

There is a charm, a power, that sways the breast,
Bids every passion revel or be still,
Inspires with anger, or all your cares dissolves;
Can soothe distraction and most despair,
That power is music. [ Armstrong ]

A man in distress or despair does as much as ten. [ Proverb ]

He is the truly courageous man who never desponds. [ Confucius ]

When pain can't bless, heaven quits as in despair. [ Young ]

Oh, break, my heart! poor bankrupt, break at once!
To prison, eyes, never look on liberty!
Vile earth, to earth resign; end motion here;
And thou and Romeo press one heavy bier! [ William Shakespeare ]

The fountain of my heart dried up within me, -
With nought that loved me, and with nought to love,
I stood upon the desert earth alone.
And in that deep and utter agony,
Though then, then even most unfit to die
I fell upon my knees and prayed for death. [ Maturin ]

Hope, withering, fled - and Mercy sighed farewell. [ Byron ]

And mammon wins his way where seraphs might despair. [ Byron ]

My sole resources in the path I trod,
Were these - my bark - my sword - my love — my God.
The last I left in youth - He leaves me now -
And man but works His will to lay me low.
I have no thought to mock His throne with prayer,
Wrung from the coward crouching of despair;
It is enough - I breathe - and I can bear. [ Byron ]

Despair hath damned some, but presumption multitudes. [ Proverb ]

Gambling is the son of avarice and the father of despair. [ French Proverb ]

Now cold despair To livid paleness turns the glowing red;
His blood, scarce liquid, creeps within his veins,
Like water which the freezing wind constrains. [ Dryden ]

To the old, sorrow is sorrow; to the young, it is despair. [ George Eliot ]

The fear that kills, and hope that is unwilling to be fed. [ Wordsworth ]

Despair is the damp of hell; rejoicing is the serenity of heaven. [ Donne ]

Even every ray of hope destroyed and not a wish to gild the gloom. [ Burns ]

A speculative despair is unpardonable where it is our duty to act. [ Burke ]

There are circumstances in which despair does not imply inactivity. [ Burke ]

Necessity rouses from sloth, and despair is often the cause of hope. [ Rufus ]

Wouldst thou unlock the door to cold despair and knowing pensiveness? [ George Herbert ]

Despair gives the finishing blow not only to misery, but to weakness. [ Vauvenargues ]

He that despairs measures Providence by his own little contracted model. [ South ]

Religion converts despair, which destroys, into resignation, which submits. [ Lady Blessington ]

Patience is the strongest of strong drinks, for it kills the giant Despair. [ Douglas Jerrold ]

There's no dew left on the daisies and clover; there's no rain left in heaven. [ Jean Ingelow ]

A woman would be in despair if nature had formed her as fashion makes her appear. [ Mlle. de Lespinasse ]

Better is an error that makes us happy than a truth that plunges us into despair.

No woman or man need ever suffer from ennui or despair; the panacea is occupation. [ Mme. de Surin ]

Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold. [ Coleridge ]

Despair gives the shocking ease to the mind that a mortification gives to the body. [ Lord Greville ]

O Lucius, I am sick of this bad world! The day-light and the sun grow painful to me. [ Addison ]

It is impossible for that man to despair who remembers that his Helper is omnipotent. [ Jeremy Taylor ]

The entire world shall be populous with that action which saves one soul from despair. [ Omar Khayam ]

My day is closed! the gloom of night is come! a hopeless darkness settles over my fate. [ Joanna Baillie ]

Should all despair that have revolted wives, the tenth of mankind would hang themselves. [ William Shakespeare ]

To tell men that they cannot help themselves is to fling them into recklessness and despair. [ Froude ]

Uncertainty! fell demon of our fears! The human soul, that can support despair, supports not thee. [ Mallet ]

All hope is lost of my reception into grace; what worse? For where no hope is left is left no fear. [ Milton ]

The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair through fear alone. [ Tacitus ]

To doubt is worse than to have lost; and to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall on us. [ Massinger ]

Despair defies even despotism; there is that in my heart would make its way through hosts with leveled spears. [ Byron ]

To him whose spirit is bowed down by the weight of piercing sorrow, the day and night are both of the same color. [ Dschami ]

Never despair of a child. The one you weep the most for at the mercyseat may fill your heart with the sweetest joys. [ T. L. Cuyler ]

Revenge is barren of itself; itself is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its saiety, despair. [ Schiller ]

There are some vile and contemptible men who, allowing themselves to be conquered by misfortune, seek a refuge in death. [ Agathon ]

Ennui, perhaps, has made more gamblers than avarice, more drunkards than thirst, and perhaps as many suicides as despair. [ Colton ]

The misanthropist is to be pitied when his despair proceeds from an ardent love for the good, the beautiful, and the true. [ George Sand ]

The fact that God has prohibited despair gives misfortune the right to hope all things, and leaves hope free to dare all things. [ Madame Swetchine ]

These evils I deserve, yet despair not of His final pardon whose ear is ever open and his eye gracious to readmit the supplicant. [ Milton ]

Considering the unforeseen events of this world, we should be taught that no human condition should inspire men with absolute despair. [ Fielding ]

To despond is to be ungrateful beforehand. Be not looking for evil. Often thou drainest the gall of fear while evil is passing thy dwelling. [ Tupper ]

Mr. Fearing had, I think, a slough of despond in his mind, a slough that he carried everywhere with him, or else he could never have been as he was. [ John Bunyan ]

I would not despair unless I knew the irrevocable decree was passed; saw my misfortune recorded in the book of fate, and signed and sealed by necessity. [ Jeremy Collier ]

Rejected lovers need never despair! There are four and twenty hours in a day, and not a moment in the twenty-four in which a woman may not change her mind. [ De Finod ]

We live only on debris; instead of despair, we have indifference; love itself is treated as an ancient illusion. Where has the soul of the world taken refuge? [ Mme. Louise Colet ]

No man's credit can fall so low but that, if he bear his shame as he should do, and profit by it as he ought to do, it is in his own power to redeem his reputation. [ Lord Nottingham ]

The passage of Providence lies through many crooked ways; a despairing heart is the true prophet of approaching evil; his actions may weave the webs of fortune, but not break them. [ Quarles ]

Sweet recreation barred, what doth ensue but moody and dull melancholy, kinsman to grim and comfortless despair; and at their heels, a huge infectious troop of pale distemperatures and foes to life. [ William Shakespeare ]

Despair is like forward children, who, when you take away one of their playthings, throw the rest into the fire for madness. It grows angry with itself, turns its own executioner, and revenges its misfortunes on its own head. [ Charron ]

A broken heart is a distemper which kills many more than is generally imagined, and would have a fair title to a place in the bills of mortality, did it not differ in one instance from all other diseases, namely, that no physicians can cure it. [ Fielding ]

Of all faults the greatest is the excess of impious terror, dishonoring divine grace. He who despairs wants love, wants faith; for faith, hope, and love are three torches which blend their light together, nor does the one shine without the other. [ Metastasio ]

Despair makes a despicable figure, and descends from a mean original. 'Tis the offspring of fear, of laziness and impatience; it argues a defect of spirit and resolution, and oftentimes of honesty, too. I would not despair unless I saw misfortune recorded in the book of fate, and signed and sealed by necessity. [ Collier ]

despair in Scrabble®

The word despair is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 10

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters despair:

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despair in Words With Friends™

The word despair is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 11

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays In The Letters despair:

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Seven Letter Word Alert: (4 words)

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DESPAIR
(46 = 11 + 35)

The 200 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In despair

ASPIRED
(98 = 63 + 35)
DIAPERS
(98 = 63 + 35)
PRAISED
(98 = 63 + 35)
DIAPERS
(98 = 63 + 35)
DESPAIR
(98 = 63 + 35)
DESPAIR
(98 = 63 + 35)
DIAPERS
(92 = 57 + 35)
DESPAIR
(92 = 57 + 35)
PRAISED
(92 = 57 + 35)
DIAPERS
(92 = 57 + 35)
DESPAIR
(92 = 57 + 35)
DIAPERS
(86 = 51 + 35)
DESPAIR
(86 = 51 + 35)
PRAISED
(86 = 51 + 35)
ASPIRED
(86 = 51 + 35)
ASPIRED
(80 = 45 + 35)
DIAPERS
(80 = 45 + 35)
DESPAIR
(80 = 45 + 35)
PRAISED
(80 = 45 + 35)
DIAPERS
(80 = 45 + 35)
ASPIRED
(80 = 45 + 35)
PRAISED
(80 = 45 + 35)
PRAISED
(80 = 45 + 35)
ASPIRED
(80 = 45 + 35)
DESPAIR
(80 = 45 + 35)
ASPIRED
(79 = 44 + 35)
DIAPERS
(79 = 44 + 35)
PRAISED
(79 = 44 + 35)
DESPAIR
(79 = 44 + 35)
DESPAIR
(79 = 44 + 35)
DESPAIR
(79 = 44 + 35)
PRAISED
(79 = 44 + 35)
ASPIRED
(79 = 44 + 35)
PRAISED
(79 = 44 + 35)
DIAPERS
(79 = 44 + 35)
DIAPERS
(79 = 44 + 35)
ASPIRED
(79 = 44 + 35)
ASPIRED
(74 = 39 + 35)
ASPIRED
(74 = 39 + 35)
PRAISED
(74 = 39 + 35)
PRAISED
(74 = 39 + 35)
DESPAIR
(74 = 39 + 35)
DESPAIR
(74 = 39 + 35)
ASPIRED
(74 = 39 + 35)
DESPAIR
(74 = 39 + 35)
PRAISED
(74 = 39 + 35)
DIAPERS
(74 = 39 + 35)
PRAISED
(74 = 39 + 35)
DIAPERS
(74 = 39 + 35)
ASPIRED
(74 = 39 + 35)
DIAPERS
(74 = 39 + 35)
ASPIRED
(74 = 39 + 35)
ASPIRED
(73 = 38 + 35)
PRAISED
(73 = 38 + 35)
RASPED
(66)
PADRES
(66)
PRAISED
(65 = 30 + 35)
ASPIRED
(65 = 30 + 35)
ASPIRED
(65 = 30 + 35)
PRAISED
(65 = 30 + 35)
DESPAIR
(65 = 30 + 35)
DIAPERS
(65 = 30 + 35)
DIAPERS
(61 = 26 + 35)
DESPAIR
(61 = 26 + 35)
ASPIRED
(61 = 26 + 35)
DIAPERS
(61 = 26 + 35)
DESPAIR
(61 = 26 + 35)
PRAISED
(61 = 26 + 35)
DIAPERS
(61 = 26 + 35)
DIAPERS
(61 = 26 + 35)
DIAPERS
(61 = 26 + 35)
DIAPERS
(61 = 26 + 35)
DESPAIR
(61 = 26 + 35)
ASPIRED
(61 = 26 + 35)
ASPIRED
(61 = 26 + 35)
PRAISED
(61 = 26 + 35)
DESPAIR
(61 = 26 + 35)
ASPIRED
(61 = 26 + 35)
DESPAIR
(61 = 26 + 35)
ASPIRED
(61 = 26 + 35)
PRAISED
(61 = 26 + 35)
PRAISED
(61 = 26 + 35)
DESPAIR
(61 = 26 + 35)
PRAISED
(61 = 26 + 35)
PRIDES
(60)
PAIRED
(60)
RAPIDS
(60)
PARSED
(60)
REPAID
(60)
DRAPES
(60)
DIAPER
(60)
PRAISED
(59 = 24 + 35)
ASPIRED
(59 = 24 + 35)
DIAPERS
(59 = 24 + 35)
DESPAIR
(59 = 24 + 35)
DIAPERS
(59 = 24 + 35)
DIAPERS
(59 = 24 + 35)
DESPAIR
(59 = 24 + 35)
PRAISED
(59 = 24 + 35)
DIAPERS
(59 = 24 + 35)
ASPIRED
(59 = 24 + 35)
ASPIRED
(59 = 24 + 35)
DESPAIR
(59 = 24 + 35)
DESPAIR
(59 = 24 + 35)
DESPAIR
(59 = 24 + 35)
ASPIRED
(59 = 24 + 35)
PRAISED
(59 = 24 + 35)
PRAISED
(59 = 24 + 35)
DIAPERS
(59 = 24 + 35)
ASPIRED
(58 = 23 + 35)
DIAPERS
(57 = 22 + 35)
DESPAIR
(57 = 22 + 35)
DIAPERS
(57 = 22 + 35)
DESPAIR
(57 = 22 + 35)
PRAISED
(57 = 22 + 35)
DIAPERS
(57 = 22 + 35)
ASPIRED
(57 = 22 + 35)
DIAPERS
(57 = 22 + 35)
DIAPERS
(57 = 22 + 35)
ASPIRED
(57 = 22 + 35)
ASPIRED
(57 = 22 + 35)
DESPAIR
(57 = 22 + 35)
ASPIRED
(57 = 22 + 35)
DIAPERS
(57 = 22 + 35)
ASPIRED
(57 = 22 + 35)
ASPIRED
(57 = 22 + 35)
PRAISED
(57 = 22 + 35)
PRAISED
(57 = 22 + 35)
DIAPERS
(57 = 22 + 35)
DESPAIR
(57 = 22 + 35)
DESPAIR
(57 = 22 + 35)
PRAISED
(57 = 22 + 35)
PRAISED
(57 = 22 + 35)
PRAISE
(57)
ASPIRE
(57)
DESPAIR
(57 = 22 + 35)
PRAISED
(57 = 22 + 35)
PRAISED
(57 = 22 + 35)
DESPAIR
(57 = 22 + 35)
ASPIRED
(57 = 22 + 35)
PRAISED
(56 = 21 + 35)
ASPIRED
(56 = 21 + 35)
PRAISED
(55 = 20 + 35)
ASPIRED
(54 = 19 + 35)
PARSED
(54)
SPIDER
(54)
SPARED
(54)
DIAPERS
(54 = 19 + 35)
RAPIDS
(54)
REPAID
(54)
PADRES
(54)
REDIPS
(54)
RASPED
(54)
SPADER
(54)
SPIRED
(54)
DESPAIR
(54 = 19 + 35)
PRIDES
(54)
DIAPER
(54)
PAIRED
(54)
SPREAD
(54)
DRAPES
(54)
ASPIRED
(53 = 18 + 35)
PRAISED
(53 = 18 + 35)
PRAISED
(53 = 18 + 35)
DIAPERS
(52 = 17 + 35)
PRAISED
(52 = 17 + 35)
DESPAIR
(52 = 17 + 35)
ASPIRED
(52 = 17 + 35)
DESPAIR
(52 = 17 + 35)
PRAISED
(52 = 17 + 35)
DIAPERS
(52 = 17 + 35)
ASPIRED
(51 = 16 + 35)
PADRE
(51)
ASPIRED
(51 = 16 + 35)
PRAISE
(51)
SPIREA
(51)
DESPAIR
(51 = 16 + 35)
DESPAIR
(51 = 16 + 35)
DESPAIR
(51 = 16 + 35)
PRAISED
(51 = 16 + 35)
PRAISED
(51 = 16 + 35)
DIAPERS
(51 = 16 + 35)
PARED
(51)
DRAPE
(51)
REDIP
(51)
PRIED
(51)
DIAPERS
(51 = 16 + 35)
DRIPS
(51)
DESPAIR
(51 = 16 + 35)
ASPIRE
(51)
SPADE
(51)
PRAISED
(51 = 16 + 35)
IPADS
(51)
DIAPERS
(51 = 16 + 35)
DIAPERS
(51 = 16 + 35)
PRIDE
(51)
SPIED
(51)
DIAPERS
(50 = 15 + 35)
DESPAIR
(50 = 15 + 35)
DESPAIR
(50 = 15 + 35)

Words within the letters of despair

2 letter words in despair (10 words)

7 letter words in despair (Anagrams) (4 words)

Words containing the sequence despair

Words with despair in them (1 word)

Words that end with despair (1 word)

Word Growth involving despair

Shorter words in despair

ai air pair

pa pair

pa spa

Longer words containing despair

despaired

despairer despairers

despairful despairfully

despairful despairfulness

despairing despairingly

despairing despairingness

despairs