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Showing words for DESPAIR using the English dictionary

7 Letter Words for Despair

aspired, despair, diapers, diasper, pardesi, praised, presaid

6 Letter Words for Despair

aiders, arised, aspide, aspire, deairs, depair, diaper, dispar, drapes, irades, padres, paired, paires, pardie, paries, parsed, perais, persia, piedra, praise, prides, raised, rapide, rapids, rasped, redias, redips, repaid, resaid, risped, saired, sirpea, spader, spared, sparid, spider, spirae, spirea, spired, spraid, spread, spried

5 Letter Words for Despair

adeps, adrip, aesir, aider, aides, aired, apers, apres, apsid, aries, arise, arsed, aside, asper, dares, daris, deair, dears, depas, drape, draps, drias, dries, drips, eards, epris, ideas, irade, padis, padre, padri, paire, pairs, paise, parde, pardi, pards, pared, pares, paris, parse, parsi, pears, perai, peris, piers, prads, prase, presa, pride, pried, pries, raids, raise, raped, rapes, rapid, reads, reais, reaps, redia, redip, repad, repas, resid, rides, riped, ripes, sapid, sapir, sared, sarip, sepad, sepia, serai, sider, siped, siper, sired, spade, spaed, spaer, spaid, spair, spard, spare, spear, speir, spide, spied, spier, spira, spire, sprad, spred

4 Letter Words for Despair

adps, aide, aids, aire, airs, aped, aper, apes, apis, apse, ards, ared, ares, arid, aris, daer, daes, dais, daps, dare, dari, dase, dasi, dear, deas, deia, deis, depa, depr, desi, dias, dier, dies, dips, dire, disa, disp, drap, drie, drip, dsri, eadi, eard, ears, eira, eras, eria, eris, iare, idea, ides, ipse, ired, ires, irpe, ised, padi, pads, paid, pair, pais, pard, pare, pari, pars, pase, pasi, peai, pear, peas, peda, peds, peri, pers, pesa, pias, pied, pier, pies, pirs, pisa, pise, prad, pred, pres, prie, psia, psid, rade, rads, raid, rais, rape, raps, rasp, read, reap, reds, reps, resp, rias, ride, rids, ries, ripa, ripe, rips, rise, risp, sade, sadi, sadr, said, saip, sair, sard, sare, sari, sear, seir, sepd, sida, side, sier, sipe, sire, spad, spae, spar, sped, spie

3 Letter Words for Despair

ade, adp, ads, aer, aes, aid, air, ais, ape, apr, ard, are, ars, ase, asp, dae, dap, dar, das, dea, dei, dep, der, des, dia, die, dip, dir, dis, dpi, dsp, dsr, ead, ear, eas, edp, eds, eir, epa, epi, era, erd, ers, esd, esp, esr, ida, ide, idp, ids, ipr, ips, ira, ire, irs, ise, pad, par, pas, pea, ped, per, pes, pia, pid, pie, pir, pis, pre, prs, psi, rad, rai, rap, ras, rea, red, rei, rep, res, ria, rid, rie, rip, rps, sad, sai, sap, sar, sea, sed, sei, sep, ser, sie, sip, sir, spa, sri

Definitions for Despair

[1] loss of hope; hopelessness.
[2] someone or something that causes hopelessness: He is the despair of his mother.
[3] to lose, give up, or be without hope (often followed by of ): to despair of humanity.
[4] Obsolete . to give up hope of.
[5] (intr often foll by of ) to lose or give up hope I despair of his coming
[6] (tr) obsolete to give up hope of; lose hope in
[7] total loss of hope
[8] a person or thing that causes hopelessness or for which there is no hope

Words related to Despair

gloom, melancholy, pain, desperation, sorrow, despondency, misery, discouragement, anguish, ordeal, dejection, trial, tribulation, wretchedness, forlornness, relinquish, despond, renounce, drop, yield

Words nearby Despair

desonide, desorb, desorption, desoximetasone, desoxy-, despair, despairing, despatch, despeciation, despenser, desperado

Origin of Despair

1275–1325; Middle English despeir (noun), despeiren (v.) < Anglo-French despeir, Old French despoir (noun), despeir-, tonic stem of desperer (v.) < Latin dēspērāre to be without hope, equivalent to dē- de- + spērāre to hope, derivative of spēs hope

Other words from Despair

de·spair·er , noun
self-de·spair , noun
un·de·spaired , adjective

Word origin for Despair

C14: from Old French despoir hopelessness, from desperer to despair, from Latin dēspērāre, from de- + spērāre to hope

Synonyms for Despair

anguish, desperation, despondency, discouragement, gloom, melancholy, misery, pain, sorrow, dejection, disheartenment, forlornness, ordeal, trial, tribulation, wretchedness, dashed hopes