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Synonyms for desperation
ˌdɛs pəˈreɪ ʃəndes·per·a·tion
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
desperation
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.
Synonyms:
despair, despondency, discouragement, hopelessnessAntonyms:
anticipation, assurance, cheer, confidence, courage, elation, encouragement, expectancy, expectation, hope, hopefulness, trust
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desperationnoun
Synonyms:
despair, hopelessness
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
desperationnoun
Synonyms:
despair, hopelessness, recklessness
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Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#12669 | distress | |
#15811 | despair | |
#23875 | desperation | |
#48812 | hopelessness | |
#73210 | discouragement | |
#108546 | despondency |
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The rising desperation in Venezuela has fueled a mass exodus, the likes of which we have never seen in the Western Hemisphere.
This is the sort of desperation, throw the kitchen sink at the wall and see what sticks strategy.
Toshimitsu Shigemura, professor emeritus of Waseda University and North Korea expert, also noted the desperation to meet fishing harvest quotas has pushed fishermen to travel farther out. Kim Jong Un is seeking to make North Korea self-sufficient in food, but its sources of protein continues to fall. The rogue nation remains vulnerable to health problems caused by the lack of a varied, balanced diet. Eight skeletal remains were found in a boat, one of the earlier gruesome discoveries. (Kyodo via Reuters) Fishermen are desperate to meet annual catch goals, which are elevated to higher levels every year, Shigemura said. Pyon added: Since then, fishermen have been frantically trying to meet [annual] catch goals, but what's different this year is that they are traveling to distant waters in their fragile boats.
Fryal Abbo, with her teen daughter, Najma, mourns the death of Fryal Abbo. Fryal Abbo was killed for selling alcohol in a Christian shop two days before Christmas last year. ( Hollie McKay. com) Others at Camp Virgin Mary tell similar stories. Ena Kromy, 77, clutched a cross and a photograph of Ena Kromy son as Ena Kromy sat in the sunshine. Ena Kromy, too, was dressed all in black.Her son was shot in the head at a restaurant where he worked eight years ago. The restaurant, too, was targeted because it served alcohol. Ena Kromy said the shock of his death killed Fryal Abbo a few months later.My son died from his head, and Fryal Abbo from his heart, Ena Kromy sobbed. Recently, Kromypackedup and returned toMosul, Iraq’s second-largest city, after itwas recaptured from ISIS militants.Butshe discovered her househad been destroyed in the fighting.So she returned to Camp Virgin Mary, with Camp Virgin Mary mixture of lingering fear and desperation to flee Iraq altogether. The government tells us to go back, but I will never go back to that home.
Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.
Translations for desperation
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- безнаде́ждност, отча́яниеBulgarian
- VerzweiflungGerman
- desesperaciónSpanish
- epätoivoFinnish
- désespoirFrench
- èiginnScottish Gaelic
- ייאושHebrew
- disperazioneItalian
- 絶望Japanese
- desperasjonNorwegian Nynorsk
- desperasjonNorwegian
- desperareRomanian
- отча́яние, безнадёжностьRussian
- desperationSwedish
- tuyệt vọngVietnamese
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