We found 36 dictionaries with English definitions that include the word despair:
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 General (28 matching dictionaries)
- despair: Compact Oxford English Dictionary [home, info]
- despair: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
- despair: Encarta® World English Dictionary, North American Edition [home, info]
- despair: Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, 11th Edition [home, info]
- Despair, despair: Wordnik [home, info]
- despair: Cambridge International Dictionary of English [home, info]
- Despair: Wiktionary [home, info]
- despair: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info]
- despair: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info]
- despair: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info]
- Despair, despair: Dictionary.com [home, info]
- despair: Online Etymology Dictionary [home, info]
- despair: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
- despair: Cambridge Dictionary of American English [home, info]
- Despair (DC Comics), Despair (Sandman), Despair (band), Despair (book), Despair (novel), Despair: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia [home, info]
- despair: Cambridge International Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs [home, info]
- Despair: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
- despair: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info]
- despair: Rhymezone [home, info]
- despair: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
- despair: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info]
- Despair: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898) [home, info]
- despair: Free Dictionary [home, info]
- despair: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info]
- despair: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info]
- despair: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
- despair: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]
- despair: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations [home, info]
Business (1 matching dictionary)
- despair: Legal dictionary [home, info]
Computing (1 matching dictionary)
- Despair: Encyclopedia [home, info]
Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
- despair: online medical dictionary [home, info]
- despair: Medical dictionary [home, info]
Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
- despair: Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols [home, info]
- Despair: Brilliant Dream Dictionary [home, info]
- despair: Idioms [home, info]
Religion (1 matching dictionary)
- Despair: Catholic Encyclopedia [home, info]
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Quick definitions (despair)
▸ noun: the feeling that everything is wrong and nothing will turn out well
▸ noun: a state in which everything seems wrong and will turn out badly ("They were rescued from despair at the last minute")
▸ verb: abandon hope; give up hope; lose heart ("Don't despair--help is on the way!")
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