Loading page
despair has 1 distinct synonym spread across 1 of its 3 senses. Each sense below keeps its own list, because a synonym belongs to a meaning and not to a word: swapping one sense's substitute into another sense's sentence is how a thesaurus makes writing worse. Its one recorded opposite is hope.
Counts are distinct word forms across every sense. A synonym that appears under three senses is counted once here and shown three times below, under each sense it belongs to.
a state in which all hope is lost or absent
“in the depths of despair”
the feeling that everything is wrong and nothing will turn out well
“they moaned in despair and dismay”
Synonyms, antonyms and the broader and narrower relations for despair come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Full sources and licences.