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General (32 matching dictionaries)

1. despair: Merriam-Webster.com [home, info]
2. despair: Oxford Dictionaries [home, info]
3. despair: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
4. despair: Collins English Dictionary [home, info]
5. despair: Vocabulary.com [home, info]
6. despair, despair: Macmillan Dictionary [home, info]
7. Despair, despair: Wordnik [home, info]
8. despair: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary [home, info]
9. despair: Wiktionary [home, info]
10. despair: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info]
11. despair: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info]
12. despair: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info]
13. Despair, despair: Dictionary.com [home, info]
14. despair: Online Etymology Dictionary [home, info]
15. despair: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
16. despair: Cambridge Dictionary of American English [home, info]
17. Despair (DC Comics), Despair (band), Despair (disambiguation), Despair (emotion), Despair (film), Despair (novel), Despair (sculpture), Despair: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia [home, info]
18. despair: Cambridge International Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs [home, info]
19. Despair: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
20. despair: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info]
21. despair: Rhymezone [home, info]
22. despair: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
23. despair: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info]
24. Despair: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898) [home, info]
25. despair: Free Dictionary [home, info]
26. despair: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info]
27. despair: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info]
28. despair: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
29. despair: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]
30. despair: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations [home, info]

Business (1 matching dictionary)

31. despair: Legal dictionary [home, info]

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

32. Despair: Encyclopedia [home, info]

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)

33. despair: online medical dictionary [home, info]
34. despair: Medical dictionary [home, info]

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)

35. despair: Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols [home, info]
36. Despair: Brilliant Dream Dictionary [home, info]
37. despair: Idioms [home, info]

Religion (1 matching dictionary)

38. Despair: Catholic Encyclopedia [home, info]

Slang (1 matching dictionary)

39. Despair: Urban Dictionary [home, info]

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Quick definitions from Macmillan ( ) Provided by Quick definitions from WordNet (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!") ▸ Also see despairs ▸ Word origin ▸ Words similar to despair ▸ Usage examples for despair ▸ Popular adjectives describing despair ▸ Words that often appear near despair ▸ Rhymes of despair ▸ Invented words related to despair