Antonyms for despair
dɪˈspɛərde·spair

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1. despairnoun

   Synonyms:
   desperation, hopelessness, despondency

2. despairnoun

   To give up as beyond hope or expectation; to despair of.

   He turned around in despair, aware that he was not going to survive

   Synonyms:
   hopelessness, desperation, despondency

3. despairverb

   To cause to despair.

   Synonyms:
   despondency, desperation, hopelessness

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:4.0 / 3 votes

1. despair

   Discouragement is the result of so much repulse or failure as wears out courage. Discouragements too frequent and long continued may produce a settled hopelessness. Hopelessness is negative, and may result from simple apathy; despondency and despair are more emphatic and decided. Despondency is an incapacity for the present exercise of hope; despair is the utter abandonment of hope. Despondency relaxes energy and effort and is always attended with sadness or distress; despair may produce a stony calmness, or it may lead to desperation. Desperation is energized despair, vigorous in action, reckless of consequences.

   Antonyms:
   anticipation, assurance, cheer, confidence, courage, elation, encouragement, expectancy, expectation, hope, hopefulness, trust

   Synonyms:
   desperation, despondency, discouragement, hopelessness

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:4.3 / 3 votes

1. despairnoun

   Antonyms:
   hopefulness, elation, anticipation, hilarity, confidence, sanguineness, expectation

   Synonyms:
   hopelessness, despondency, desperation

2. despairverb

   Antonyms:
   hope, trust, confide, rely, presume, rally

   Synonyms:
   despond, faint

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1. despair, desperationnoun

   a state in which all hope is lost or absent

   "in the depths of despair"; "they were rescued from despair at the last minute"; "courage born of desperation"

   Antonyms:
   hope

   Synonyms:
   desperation

2. despairverb

   the feeling that everything is wrong and nothing will turn out well

   "they moaned in despair and dismay"; "one harsh word would send her into the depths of despair"

   Antonyms:
   hope

   Synonyms:
   desperation

3. despairverb

   abandon hope; give up hope; lose heart

   "Don't despair--help is on the way!"

   Antonyms:
   hope

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1. despairnoun

   Synonyms:
   hopelessness, desperation, inconsolableness

How to use despair in a sentence?

1. Martin Luther:

   I refuse to accept despair as the final response to the ambiguities of history.

2. Masahiko Sato:

   What I want most to tell people is, 'Don't underestimate your abilities. There are things you cannot do but there are lots of things you can do, so do not despair, the most painful thing is when someone says 'I am pitiable'. I am not pitiable. There are inconveniences, but I am not unhappy.

3. Ronald Cunningham:

   They put Omani in his box, They're using nails instead of locks. But at his funeral don't despair, The chances are he won't be there.

4. Edmund Burke:

   Never despair but if you do, work on in despair.

5. William Blake:

   What seems to be, is, to those to whom it seems to be, and is productive of the most dreadful consequences to those to whom it seems to be, even of torments, despair, eternal death.

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