Synonyms for Despair:

• n.

  •
  • break,
  • darken,
  • sink,
  • lose/give up hope,
  • wobble,
  • say/wave/kiss goodbye to something.
  •bane (noun)
  • fatal attraction.
  •blue devils (noun)
  • Mulligrubs,
  • mubblefubbles,
  • pink elephants,
  • DT.
  •dejection (noun)
  • joylessness,
  • plaintiveness,
  • grimness,
  • sullenness,
  • dolorousness,
  • contemplativeness,
  • blues,
  • woefulness,
  • dreariness,
  • moodiness,
  • sadness,
  • ennui,
  • anxiety.
  •depression (noun)
  • blue devils.
  •depression, hopelessness (noun)
  • dashed hopes,
  • trial,
  • sorrow,
  • anguish,
  • desperation,
  • forlornness,
  • dejection,
  • ordeal,
  • pain,
  • disheartenment,
  • despondency,
  • tribulation.
  •desolation (noun)
  • gloominess.
  •desperation (noun)
  • dis tresses,
  • un-happiness,
  • un happiness,
  • dis-tress,
  • dis tractions,
  • dis-comfort,
  • dis-tresses,
  • dis-comforts,
  • dis comfort,
  • dis tress,
  • dis traction,
  • dis comforts,
  • un happinesses,
  • dis-traction,
  • dis-tractions,
  • un-happinesses,
  • disconsolatenesses.
  •discouragement (noun)
  • dis mays,
  • dis-appointment,
  • dis-may,
  • low spirit,
  • dis-mays,
  • dis appointments,
  • loss confidence,
  • dis-appointments,
  • dis appointment,
  • dis may.
  •emotion (noun)
  • empathy,
  • excitability,
  • responsiveness,
  • warmth,
  • vibes,
  • vibe.
  •fear (noun)
  • timidity,
  • tremblings,
  • cold sweat.
  •feelings (noun)
  • emotion.
  •gloom (noun)
  • cheerlessnesses,
  • saturninities,
  • Catatonias,
  • pensivenesses.
  •glumness (noun)
  • downheartedns.
  •grief (noun)
  • be-moaning,
  • dis-quiets,
  • deplorings,
  • lamentings,
  • in felicities,
  • dis quiet,
  • bewailings,
  • dis quiets,
  • re-pining,
  • be wailing,
  • in felicity,
  • dis-quiet,
  • repinings,
  • re pining,
  • bemoanings,
  • in-felicities,
  • be-wailing,
  • be moaning,
  • in-felicity.
  •heartache (noun)
  • broken hearts,
  • hurtings.
  •heartbreak (noun)
  • heartsickness.
  •heavy-heartedness (noun)
  • heavy heartedness.
  •hopelessness (noun)
  • bleakness,
  • depression,
  • moroseness,
  • spiritlessness,
  • heartlessness,
  • abandonment,
  • defeatism,
  • hopelessness,
  • downheartedness,
  • negativity,
  • dispiritedness.
  •malaise (noun)
  • in firmnesses,
  • in-firmnesses,
  • un-healthiness,
  • unhealthinesses,
  • un healthiness,
  • in firmness,
  • in-firmness,
  • un healthinesses,
  • sicklinesses,
  • un-healthinesses,
  • infirmnesses.
  •melancholy (noun)
  • miserablenesses,
  • wistfulnesses,
  • down trips.
  •misery (noun)
  • worriments,
  • head-ache,
  • anvil choru.
  •Other relevant words: (noun)
  • heaviness,
  • desolation,
  • infelicity,
  • heavy-heartedness,
  • pensiveness,
  • grief,
  • melancholia,
  • heavyheartedness,
  • Dyspepsias,
  • bane,
  • the blue,
  • morbidity,
  • expectation of worst,
  • loss of confidence,
  • Melancholias,
  • pessimism,
  • Infirmness,
  • dyspepsia,
  • gloom,
  • wretchedness,
  • broken heart,
  • lamentation,
  • dim view,
  • discouragement,
  • head ache,
  • mournfulness,
  • abjection,
  • purgatory,
  • dismals,
  • glumness,
  • disconsolateness,
  • gloomy outlook,
  • cheerlessness,
  • the blues,
  • dolefuls,
  • fear,
  • downheartedn,
  • wistfulness,
  • Morbidities,
  • catatonia,
  • Miserableness,
  • Sickliness,
  • down trip,
  • headache,
  • dark side,
  • low spirits,
  • malaise,
  • saturninity,
  • blahs,
  • rue,
  • worriment,
  • unhealthiness,
  • anvil chorus,
  • heartache,
  • Infelicities,
  • heavy heart,
  • heartbreak,
  • melancholy,
  • misery.
  •pessimism (noun)
  • dark sides,
  • gloomy outlooks,
  • expectation worst,
  • dis-trusts,
  • dis trust,
  • dis-trust,
  • dim views,
  • dis trusts.

• v.

  •emotion (verb)
  • despair.
  •give in/give up (verb)
  • re-signs,
  • sur renders,
  • washes ones hands of,
  • sur-renders,
  • takes oath,
  • dropt like hot potato,
  • caved in,
  • throws in the towel,
  • throws towel,
  • sur-rendering,
  • re signed,
  • sur rendered,
  • sur-rendered,
  • re-signed,
  • Re sign,
  • washes hands of,
  • re signs,
  • dropped like hot potato,
  • threw in towel,
  • buckled under,
  • washed ones hands of,
  • wash ones hands of,
  • taking the oath,
  • throws the towel,
  • drops like hot potato,
  • threw in the towel,
  • threw the towel,
  • took the oath,
  • washing hands of,
  • drops like a hot potato,
  • dropped like a hot potato,
  • throwing in towel,
  • throw towel,
  • re signing,
  • washed one's hands of,
  • taking oath,
  • takes the oath,
  • dropt like a hot potato,
  • washed one hands of,
  • sur-render,
  • buckles under,
  • throws in towel,
  • throwing the towel,
  • dropping like a hot potato,
  • throwing towel,
  • wash one hands of,
  • took oath,
  • washing one's hands of,
  • washes one hands of,
  • washing ones hands of,
  • buckling under,
  • washing one hands of,
  • throw the towel,
  • threw towel,
  • dropping like hot potato,
  • sur rendering,
  • washes one's hands of,
  • washed hands of.
  •give up hope (verb)
  • give way,
  • renounce,
  • lose faith,
  • surrender,
  • relinquish,
  • have heavy heart,
  • drop,
  • let air out,
  • resign,
  • abandon,
  • yield,
  • flatten,
  • be hopeless,
  • destroy,
  • take down.
  •mope (verb)
  • wert apathetic,
  • eating ones heart out,
  • being down the mouth,
  • wears long face,
  • was a funk,
  • wast funk,
  • ate ones heart out,
  • wast down in mouth,
  • be down mouth,
  • being in a funk,
  • was in a funk,
  • be down the mouth,
  • am a funk,
  • was in funk,
  • were in a funk,
  • am down in mouth,
  • art gloomy,
  • is gloomy,
  • re pine,
  • eating one heart out,
  • re pined,
  • am down in the mouth,
  • are down the mouth,
  • is down the mouth,
  • ate heart out,
  • art a funk,
  • is down in the mouth,
  • are gloomy,
  • is apathetic,
  • re-pine,
  • loses heart,
  • being a funk,
  • pined away,
  • am in a funk,
  • eating heart out,
  • re-pined,
  • wast a funk,
  • re-pines,
  • were down in mouth,
  • are a funk,
  • wast apathetic,
  • re pines,
  • pines away,
  • eats one's heart out,
  • is funk,
  • stews over,
  • being apathetic,
  • wast gloomy,
  • ate one heart out,
  • losing heart,
  • were apathetic,
  • art apathetic,
  • be in funk,
  • eats heart out,
  • eats one heart out,
  • wert a funk,
  • wert down mouth,
  • was down in mouth,
  • wast down the mouth,
  • sweats over,
  • were down the mouth,
  • being in funk,
  • being down in mouth,
  • am apathetic,
  • stewed over,
  • wore a long face,
  • wert down in mouth,
  • eat ones heart out,
  • be a funk,
  • are in a funk,
  • wert in funk,
  • art in funk,
  • wearing a long face,
  • was down the mouth,
  • wast down mouth,
  • were in funk,
  • are apathetic,
  • was funk,
  • were a funk,
  • wast down in the mouth,
  • wore long face,
  • were down mouth,
  • lost heart,
  • wast in funk,
  • is down in mouth,
  • was down in the mouth,
  • art in a funk,
  • sweated over,
  • ate one's heart out,
  • eat one heart out,
  • is in funk,
  • wert down in the mouth,
  • are down in mouth,
  • wears a long face,
  • being funk,
  • am gloomy,
  • sweating over,
  • were funk,
  • be funk,
  • wast in a funk,
  • eating one's heart out,
  • wert gloomy,
  • am down the mouth,
  • wert in a funk,
  • were down in the mouth,
  • be down in mouth,
  • are down in the mouth,
  • is in a funk,
  • were gloomy,
  • wert funk,
  • art funk,
  • are in funk,
  • eats ones heart out,
  • wearing long face,
  • being down mouth,
  • stewing over,
  • was gloomy,
  • wert down the mouth,
  • am down mouth,
  • is a funk,
  • is down mouth,
  • being down in the mouth,
  • being gloomy,
  • are funk,
  • pining away,
  • wear long face,
  • was apathetic,
  • are down mouth,
  • was down mouth.
  •worry (verb)
  • be-setting,
  • be-sets,
  • be leaguered,
  • up-sets,
  • bite ones nails,
  • be deviling,
  • sweated out,
  • gnawed at,
  • biting ones nails,
  • be setting,
  • de-press,
  • be-deviled,
  • be sets,
  • de-presses,
  • be leaguering,
  • de-pressing,
  • had qualms,
  • bit nails,
  • hath qualms,
  • up setting,
  • be devilling,
  • be-leaguer,
  • be-deviling,
  • dis-quieted,
  • un settle,
  • bites one nails,
  • biting one nails,
  • hast qualms,
  • un settles,
  • un settling,
  • up-set,
  • be leaguers,
  • bites one's nails,
  • un-settled,
  • be devils,
  • be-leaguers,
  • de press,
  • gnaws at,
  • de pressed,
  • haddest qualms,
  • dis-tressed,
  • be-leaguering,
  • dis quieting,
  • be-devil,
  • de presses,
  • be deviled,
  • un-settle,
  • be-set,
  • feeling uneasy,
  • gnawing at,
  • bites nails,
  • concerned oneself,
  • concerns oneself,
  • be-devilling,
  • de-pressed,
  • un settled,
  • be-devils,
  • un-settling,
  • up sets,
  • having qualms,
  • be-devilled,
  • bit ones nails,
  • be-leaguered,
  • sweats out,
  • bites ones nails,
  • dis quieted,
  • be devil,
  • be leaguer,
  • has qualms,
  • dis tressed,
  • be devilled,
  • bite one nails,
  • concerning oneself,
  • de pressing,
  • bit one nails,
  • bit one's nails,
  • hadst qualms,
  • up-setting,
  • felt uneasy,
  • feels uneasy,
  • dis-quieting.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • despondence,
  • give up on,
  • despond,
  • Desperateness.
  •
  • succumb.
  •
  • write off.
  •despondency
  • dumps.
  •melancholy
  • vapors.
  •Other relevant words:
  • Idled,
  • be gloomy,
  • worry,
  • buckle under,
  • give up,
  • gave in,
  • caves in,
  • wash one's hands of,
  • mope,
  • stew over,
  • cave in,
  • wear a long face,
  • grumped,
  • throw in towel,
  • forswear,
  • throw in the towel,
  • give in,
  • be down in the mouth,
  • sweat over,
  • lose heart,
  • take oath,
  • pine away,
  • be apathetic,
  • Regretted,
  • wash hands of,
  • be in a funk,
  • eat one's heart out,
  • caving in,
  • repine,
  • throwing in the towel,
  • eat heart out,
  • grumping,
  • take the oath,
  • drop like a hot potato,
  • drop like hot potato.
  •worry
  • DUNS,
  • sweating out,
  • feel uneasy,
  • bite one's nails,
  • Dunned,
  • concern oneself,
  • biting nails,
  • sweat out,
  • dun,
  • Dunning,
  • worried,
  • gnaw at,
  • have qualms,
  • be set,
  • bite nails,
  • up set,
  • biting one's nails.
  •Other relevant words (noun):
  • dejected,
  • jade,
  • discomposure,
  • depressed,
  • break one's heart,
  • affliction,
  • detachment,
  • despairing,
  • grievous,
  • trepidation,
  • travail,
  • hopelessly,
  • surprise,
  • quit,
  • downhearted,
  • forlorn,
  • batophobia,
  • no way out,
  • cede,
  • bereavement,
  • desperately,
  • lost,
  • blank despondency,
  • gone,
  • flutter,
  • unhappy,
  • grieve,
  • anxiousness,
  • Broken-hearted,
  • unsuspecting,
  • hopeless,
  • crushing,
  • gloomy,
  • goner,
  • torture,
  • wither,
  • lowness,
  • heart-stricken,
  • in grief,
  • languish,
  • darkness,
  • no way,
  • regret,
  • overwhelm,
  • dismal,
  • capitulate,
  • brood,
  • downer,
  • distressed,
  • torment,
  • sad,
  • apathy,
  • discontent,
  • despair of,
  • hope against hope,
  • hit rock bottom,
  • droop,
  • distressing,
  • falter,
  • sorrowing,
  • feeling,
  • horror-stricken,
  • lamenting,
  • concerned,
  • fret,
  • crestfallen,
  • forlornly,
  • deject,
  • acedia,
  • wicked,
  • calamitous,
  • depressing,
  • nervousness,
  • abandon hope,
  • touch bottom,
  • distress,
  • funereal,
  • demolish,
  • sloth,
  • woeful,
  • absence of hope,
  • cheerless,
  • bleeding heart,
  • shameful,
  • lament,
  • confuse,
  • regretful,
  • give,
  • unsuspicious,
  • fearless,
  • blue,
  • bitterness,
  • abdicate,
  • dolour,
  • quivering,
  • resignation,
  • reach the depths,
  • desolate,
  • loss,
  • sorrowful,
  • despondently,
  • give up hope,
  • sinister,
  • disquiet,
  • wretch,
  • trembling,
  • wretched,
  • cowardice,
  • yearn,
  • sorry,
  • brood over,
  • depress,
  • agonize,
  • miserable,
  • bale,
  • dishearten,
  • despondent,
  • angst,
  • trouble,
  • perturbation,
  • comfortless,
  • mourning,
  • fear and trembling,
  • concern,
  • Downcastness,
  • no exit,
  • tremor,
  • status,
  • dead duck,
  • in tears,
  • lugubrious,
  • oppression,
  • doldrums,
  • extremity,
  • horrified,
  • unconsolable,
  • bad job,
  • suffering,
  • desperate,
  • degrade,
  • disconsolate,
  • suicidal despair,
  • disapprove,
  • cut up,
  • dismay,
  • sick at heart,
  • prostration,
  • give over,
  • taedium vitae,
  • discourage,
  • discomfort,
  • bum out,
  • downcast,
  • chagrined,
  • Heartquake,
  • alarm,
  • dejectedness,
  • confound,
  • agony of mind,
  • shaking,
  • dolefulness,
  • disconcert,
  • concave,
  • heart-broken,
  • abject fear,
  • sing,
  • sulk,
  • inconsolable,
  • desole,
  • dreary,
  • dispirited,
  • disquietude,
  • blackness,
  • low,
  • distressful,
  • pine,
  • bring down,
  • abject,
  • disturb,
  • pessimist,
  • despairingly,
  • unhappiness,
  • become suicidal,
  • woe,
  • inquietude,
  • tire,
  • agony,
  • mourn,
  • death wish,
  • concede,
  • pout,
  • disappointment,
  • palpitation,
  • aching heart,
  • in despair,
  • self-destructive urge,
  • restlessness.

Paraphrases for Despair:

• Equivalence

  • Proper noun, singular
    hopelessness.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    desperation, hopelessness.

• Reverse Entailment

  • Noun, singular or mass
    dismay.

• Independent

  • Noun, singular or mass
    devastation, misfortune, hardship, disarray, grief.

• Other Related

  • Noun, singular or mass
    despondency, distress, desolation, disappointment, frustration, helplessness, misery, anguish, disillusionment, depression.
  • Interjection
    desperate.

Antonyms for Despair:

• n.

  • depression, hopelessness
    happiness, faith, hopefulness, encouragement, comfort, joy, pleasure, cheerfulness, confidence, trust, joyfulness, peace, cheer, contentment.
  • Other antonyms:
    blissfulness, glee, gleefulness, expectation, gladness, lightheartedness, assurance, jubilation, bliss, courage, joyousness, expectancy, optimism, merriment, joviality, gaiety, mirth, sunniness, mirthfulness, exultation, exuberance, rapturousness, jollity, anticipation.

• v.

  • emotion
    hope.
  • give up hope
    anticipate, expect, keep, wish for, pursue, have faith.

Homophones for Despair:

• disappear, discover, dissever, discovery, disbar, Dispair, decipherer, dysphoria, discoverer, deceiver, disfavour, diaspora, Duchess Of Ferrara, decipher, disfavor.

Hypernym for Despair:

• n.

  • feeling
    discouragement, resignation, surrender, disheartenment, hopelessness, dismay, pessimism.

• v.

  • emotion
    despond.

Hyponym for Despair:

• n.

  • feeling
    feeling.
  • state
    condition, status.