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
