despair
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
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- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
a state in which all hope is lost or absent
in the depths of despair
Types & categories
- condition hypernym
Related & opposite
- despair derivation
Sense 2 verb
abandon hope; give up hope; lose heart
Don't despair--help is on the way!
Types & categories
- despond hyponym
Related & opposite
- hope antonym
- despair derivation
- desperate derivation
- desperation derivation
Sense 3 noun
the feeling that everything is wrong and nothing will turn out well
they moaned in despair and dismay
Types & categories
- feeling hypernym
- hopelessness hyponym
- surrender hyponym
- discouragement hyponym
- pessimism hyponym
Related & opposite
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | despair |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | condition |
| 2 | antonym | Related & opposite | hope |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | despair |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | desperate |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | desperation |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | despond |
| 3 | antonym | Related & opposite | hope |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | despair |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | feeling |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | hopelessness |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | surrender |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | discouragement |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | pessimism |