despair

Significado (Inglés)

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) Loss of hope; utter hopelessness; complete despondency.
2. (countable, uncountable) That which causes despair.
3. (countable, uncountable) That which is despaired of.

Verb

1. (obsolete, transitive) To give up as beyond hope or expectation; to despair of.
2. (transitive) To cause to despair.
3. (intransitive) To be hopeless; to have no hope; to give up all hope or expectation.

Conceptos

desesperación

desesperar

desesperarse

desaliento

despecho

dar suspiros

desesperanzarse

gemir

desespero

suspirar

Opuesto a

hope, respair

Sinónimos

desperation

hopelessness

despondency

lose hope

lose heart

disappointment

abandonment

despond

despondence

depression

become discouraged

dejected

pessimism

dejection

give up

gloom

desolation

discouragement

disheartened

brokenheartedness

give up hope

depressed

dispirited

grief

give up hope of life

melancholic

melancholy

misery

moan

moroseness

quit

sadness

sigh

sorrow

surrender

trouble

unhappiness

worry

be hopeless

in despair

lose interest

self-abandonment

prostation

dejection of mind

depression of spirits

loss of heart

wanhope

adversity

affliction

be disappointed

Traducciones

désespoir

désespérer

disperazione

Verzweiflung

disperare

verzweifeln

desesperar

απελπίζομαι

απελπισία

wanhoop

desespero

desesperació

vertwijfeling

wanhopen

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/dɪˈspɛə(ɹ)/

Etimología (Inglés)

Heredado de inglés medio: dispeir

In summary

From Middle English dispeir, from Anglo-Norman despeir and Old French desperer (from Latin dēspērō, dēspērāre), or desesperer, from des- (“dis-”) + esperer (“hope”). See also desperate. Displaced native Old English ormōdnes (“despair”) and Old English ortrīewan (“to despair”).

Oraciones

Despair is something that haunts us at night .

La desesperación es algo que nos persigue por la noche.