Definitions for despairs

despairs de·spair

Spelling: [dih-spair]
IPA: /dɪˈspɛər/

Despairs is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 427 anagrams from letters in despairs (adeiprss).

Definitions for despairs

noun

  1. loss of hope; hopelessness.
  2. someone or something that causes hopelessness:

verb (used with object)

  1. Obsolete. to give up hope of.

verb (used without object)

  1. to lose, give up, or be without hope (often followed by of):

Origin of despairs

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

Examples for despairs

Hope looked round in despair, then glanced at her own disordered garments.

Our destiny offers, not the cup of despair, but the chalice of opportunity.

It may be nothing other than anger and despair, at this point.

I highly doubt that anyone not already in a state of despair would look to war as an antidote to Godlessness.

Rage, despair, and confusion trail in the wake of the shooting of Michael Brown.

True, we have come far from the days of stagnation and despair.

Three months of despair were ignited in suburban Missouri when officer Darren Wilson was told he would walk free.

He wears the look of one who is gnawed with envy, and he heaves the sigh of despair.

He was seized with fear for what he might do in his despair.

But addressing that “winter of despair” should not reinforce the inaccurate perceptions.

Word Value for despairs
Scrable

10

Words with friends

11

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