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despair
Overview of noun despair
The noun despair has 2 senses (first 2 from tagged texts)
1. (12) despair, desperation -- (a state in which everything seems wrong and will turn out badly; "they were rescued from despair at the last minute")
2. (8) despair -- (the feeling that everything is wrong and nothing will turn out well)
Overview of verb despair
The verb despair has 1 sense (first 1 from tagged texts)
1. (3) despair -- (abandon hope; give up hope; lose heart; "Don't despair--help is on the way!")
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun despair
2 senses of despair
Sense 1
despair, desperation
=> condition, status
=> state
=> attribute
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 2
despair
=> feeling
=> state
=> attribute
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Hyponyms of noun despair
1 of 2 senses of despair
Sense 2
despair
=> hopelessness
=> resignation, surrender
=> discouragement, disheartenment, dismay
=> pessimism
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun despair
2 senses of despair
Sense 1
despair, desperation
=> condition, status
Sense 2
despair
=> feeling
Antonyms of noun despair
1 of 2 senses of despair
Sense 2
despair
Antonym of hope (Sense 2)
=>hope
Member Holonyms of noun despair
Substance Holonyms of noun despair
Part Holonyms of noun despair
Member Meronyms of noun despair
Substance Meronyms of noun despair
Part Meronyms of noun despair
Meronyms of noun despair
Holonyms of noun despair
Attributes of noun despair
Derived Forms of noun despair
2 senses of despair
Sense 1
despair, desperation
RELATED TO>(verb) despair#1
=> despair
Sense 2
despair
RELATED TO>(verb) despair#1
=> despair
Domain of noun despair
Domain Terms of noun despair
Familiarity of noun despair
despair used as a noun is rare (polysemy count =2)
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of noun despair
2 senses of despair
Sense 1
despair, desperation
> condition, status
=> anchorage
=> health
=> mode
=> niche, ecological niche
=> noise conditions
=> participation, involvement
=> prepossession
=> regularization, regularisation
=> saturation
=> silence
=> situation, position
=> ski conditions
=> nomination
=> standardization, standardisation
=> stigmatism
=> astigmatism, astigmia
=> way
=> circumstance
=> homelessness
=> reinstatement
=> place
=> celibacy
=> virginity
=> innocence
=> purity, pureness, sinlessness, innocence, whiteness
=> guilt, guiltiness
=> encapsulation
=> polarization, polarisation
=> pathological state
=> disorder, upset
=> hyalinization, hyalinisation
=> vacuolization, vacuolisation, vacuolation
=> protuberance
=> curvature
=> psychological state, mental state
=> difficulty
=> improvement, melioration
=> decline, declination
=> ennoblement
=> dominance, ascendance, ascendence, ascendancy, ascendency, control
=> comfort, comfortableness
=> discomfort, uncomfortableness
=> need, demand
=> fullness
=> emptiness
=> nakedness, nudity, nudeness
=> hairlessness, depilation
=> dishabille, deshabille
=> hopefulness
=> despair, desperation
=> purity, pureness
=> impurity, impureness
=> financial condition, economic condition
=> sanitary condition
=> tilth
=> orderliness, order
=> disorderliness, disorder
=> normality, normalcy
=> abnormality, abnormalcy, abnormal condition
=> lactosuria
=> environmental condition
=> climate, mood
=> atmosphere, ambiance, ambience
=> unsusceptibility, immunity
=> immunity, resistance
=> subservience
=> susceptibility, susceptibleness
=> wetness
=> dryness, waterlessness, xerotes
=> safety
=> danger
=> tension, tensity, tenseness, tautness
=> atonicity, atony, atonia, amyotonia
=> laxness, laxity
=> repair
=> soundness
=> mutism, muteness
=> eye condition
=> unsoundness
=> impropriety
=> iniquity, wickedness, darkness, dark
=> light, illumination
=> malady
=> serration
=> absolution
=> automation
=> brutalization, brutalisation
=> condemnation
=> deification
=> diversification
=> exoneration
=> facilitation
=> frizz
=> fruition
=> hospitalization
=> identification
=> impaction
=> ionization, ionisation
=> irradiation
=> leakiness
=> lubrication
=> mechanization, mechanisation
=> motivation
=> mummification
=> preservation
=> prognathism
=> rustication
=> rustiness
=> scandalization, scandalisation
=> submission
=> urbanization, urbanisation
Sense 2
despair
> feeling
=> affect
=> emotion
=> thing
=> glow
=> faintness
=> soul, soulfulness
=> passion, passionateness
=> sentiment
=> complex
=> ambivalence, ambivalency
=> apathy
=> desire
=> sex, sexual urge
=> pleasure, pleasance
=> pain, painfulness
=> pang, stab, twinge
=> liking
=> dislike
=> gratitude
=> ingratitude, ungratefulness
=> unconcern
=> shame
=> pride, pridefulness
=> humility, humbleness
=> astonishment, amazement
=> devastation
=> expectation
=> levity
=> gravity, solemnity
=> sensitivity, sensitiveness
=> agitation
=> calmness
=> fearlessness, bravery
=> happiness
=> sadness, unhappiness
=> hope
=> despair
=> affection, affectionateness, fondness, tenderness, heart, warmness, warmheartedness, philia
=> temper, mood, humor, humour
=> sympathy, fellow feeling
=> enthusiasm
Meronyms of noun despair
2 senses of despair
Holonyms of noun despair
Grep of noun despair
despair
Antonyms of verb despair
1 sense of despair
Sense 1
despair
Antonym of hope (Sense 2)
=>hope
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb despair
1 sense of despair
Sense 1
despair
Troponyms (hyponyms) of verb despair
1 sense of despair
Sense 1
despair
=> despond
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb despair
1 sense of despair
Sense 1
despair
'Cause To' of verb despair
Derived Forms of verb despair
1 sense of despair
Sense 1
despair
RELATED TO>(noun) despair#2
=> despair
RELATED TO>(noun) despair#1
=> despair, desperation
RELATED TO>(noun) desperation#1
=> despair, desperation
RELATED TO>(noun) desperate#1
=> desperate
Domain of verb despair
Domain Terms of verb despair
Familiarity of verb despair
despair used as a verb is very rare (polysemy count =1)
Sample Sentences of verb despair
1 sense of despair
Sense 1
despair
EX: Sam and Sue despair
EX: Sam and Sue despair over the results of the experiment
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of verb despair
Synonyms (Grouped by Similarity of Meaning) of verb despair
Sense 1
despair
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Grep of verb despair
despair
Grep of adj despair
despairing
Grep of adv despair
despairingly
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