Crossword-Solution: DESPAIR 7 letters, 68 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

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Word Word Type Definition
Despair v. i. To be hopeless; to have no hope; to give up all hope or
expectation; -- often with of.
Despair v. t. To give up as beyond hope or expectation; to despair
of.
Despair v. t. To cause to despair.
Despair n. Loss of hope; utter hopelessness; complete despondency.
Despair n. That which is despaired of.

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DESPAIR anagram ASPIRED, DIAPERS, PRAISED, RAPIDES

We have 68 clues for the answer “DESPAIR”

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the feeling that everything is wrong and nothing will turn out well 1 answer
"Doubt is brother-devil to ___."—O'Reilly. 1 answer
"Shall I wasting in ___ . . . " 1 answer
"The shadow of a starless night," per Percy Bysshe Shelley 1 answer
Bad thing to sink into 1 answer
Complete loss of hope 1 answer
Feeling of hopelessness 1 answer
Film noir feature 1 answer
Giant in "Pilgrim's Progress." 1 answer
Giant of Doubting Castle. 1 answer
Giant who lives in Doubting Castle. 1 answer
Give up all hope 1 answer
Have a bad feeling 1 answer
LOSS of hope 1 answer
Lose all hope 1 answer
___, Inc. (company that sells demotivational posters) 1 answer
Very blue state 1 answer
Postloss reaction, sometimes 1 answer
Slough of despond. 1 answer
State of deep depression 1 answer
Total loss of hope 1 answer
Utter hopelessness 1 answer
Give up hope 2 answers
"Abandon hope ___ ..." 2 answers
Low state 2 answers
Lose hope 2 answers
Hopeless feeling 3 answers
Lose heart 4 answers
Down state 5 answers
AFFECTED BY A FEELING OF HOPELESSNESS 10 answers
ask forgiveness 10 answers
pessimism 10 answers
CAUSE TO LOSE HOPE 11 answers
be remorseful 11 answers
feel sorrow 13 answers
repine 14 answers
feel remorse 14 answers
Repent 15 answers
Malaise 17 answers
Tribulation 17 answers
Contrition 19 answers
be penitent 20 answers
resignation 22 answers
be sorry 22 answers
Atone 26 answers
apologise 30 answers
Heartache 32 answers
hopelessness 32 answers
"Pity!" 46 answers
Grieve 49 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETARE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with DESPAIR (5)

With that alertness of the senses which is at once the marvel and despair of civilised peoples, they knew that the pirates were on the island from the moment one of them trod on a dry stick; and in an incredibly short space of time the coyote cries began.
Peter Pan James M. Barrie 1991
All these and more came flocking; but with looks Down cast and damp, yet such wherein appear’d Obscure som glimps of joy, to have found thir chief Not in despair, to have found themselves not lost In loss it self; which on his count’nance cast Like doubtful hue: but he his wonted pride Soon recollecting, with high words, that bore Semblance of worth not substance, gently rais’d Their fainted courage, and dispel’d their fears.
Paradise Lost John Milton 1991
Then came the hard times that brought every one on the Divide to the brink of despair; three years of drouth and failure, the last struggle of a wild soil against the encroaching plowshare.
O Pioneers! Willa Cather 1991
Fray’s forehead was wrinkled both perpendicularly and crosswise, after the pattern of a portcullis, expressive of a double despair.
Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992
But the harder he blew the more closely did the traveller wrap his cloak round him, till at last the Wind had to give up in despair.
The Fables of Aesop Aesop 1992

Quotes with DESPAIR (3)

When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it--always.
Mahatma Gandhi
The greatest disease in the West today is not TB or leprosy; it is being unwanted, unloved, and uncared for. We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread but there are many more dying for a little love. The poverty in the West is a different kind of poverty -- it is not only a poverty of loneliness but also of spirituality. There's a hunger for l…
Mother Teresa A Simple Path: Mother Teresa
Man of an hard heart! Hear me, Proud, Stern, and Cruel! You could have saved me; you could have restored me to happiness and virtue, but would not! You are the destroyer of my Soul; You are my Murderer, and on you fall the curse of my death and my unborn Infant’s! Insolent in your yet-unshaken virtue, you disdained the prayers of a Penitent; But God will show mercy, though you show none. And where is the merit of your boasted virtue? What temptations have you vanquished? Cowa…
Matthew Lewis The Monk
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Onion, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 58 times in crossword archives (1942–2025).