despairs - 20 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | despair |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | depression, hopelessness |
| Synonyms: | anguish, dejection, desperation, despondency, discouragement, gloom, melancholy, misery, ordeal, pain, sorrow, trial, tribulation, wretchedness, dashed hopes, disheartenment, forlornness |
| Antonyms: | cheer, cheerfulness, confidence, faith, happiness, joy, trust, hopefulness, joyfulness |
| Main Entry: | despair |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | give up hope |
| Synonyms: | abandon, destroy, drop, flatten, relinquish, renounce, resign, surrender, take down, yield, be hopeless, despond, give way, have heavy heart, let air out, lose faith, lose heart |
| Antonyms: | anticipate, expect, hope, wish for, have faith |
| Main Entry: | bane |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | cause of misery |
| Synonyms: | affliction, blight, burden, calamity, curse, despair, destruction, disaster, downfall, misery, nuisance, pest, plague, poison, ruin, scourge, torment, trial, trouble, undoing, venom, woe, bête noir, fatal attraction, ruination |
| Antonyms: | advantage, blessing, fortune, good luck |
| Main Entry: | desolation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | distress, unhappiness |
| Synonyms: | anguish, dejection, despair, gloom, loneliness, melancholy, misery, mourning, sadness, sorrow, woe, wretchedness, gloominess |
| Antonyms: | cheer, comfort, happiness, joy |
| Main Entry: | desperation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hopelessness |
| Synonyms: | agony, anguish, anxiety, concern, dejection, depression, desolation, despair, despondency, discomfort, distraction, distress, fear, gloom, grief, heartache, melancholy, misery, pain, pang, sorrow, torture, trouble, unhappiness, worry, disconsolateness |
| Antonyms: | confidence, contentment, security |
| Main Entry: | discouragement |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | despondency |
| Synonyms: | cold feet*, dejection, depression, despair, disappointment, discomfiture, dismay, melancholy, pessimism, sadness, downheartedness, hopelessness, loss of confidence, low spirits, the blues |
| Antonyms: | cheerfulness, happiness, hopefulness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | emotion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mental state |
| Synonyms: | affect, affection, agitation, anger, ardor, commotion, concern, desire, despair, despondency, disturbance, drive, ecstasy, elation, empathy, excitement, feeling, fervor, grief, gut reaction, happiness, inspiration, joy, love, melancholy, passion, perturbation, pride, rage, remorse, sadness, satisfaction, sensation, sensibility, sentiment, shame, sorrow, sympathy, thrill, tremor, vehemence, warmth, zeal, affectivity, excitability, responsiveness, sensitiveness, vibes |
| Antonyms: | physicality |
| Main Entry: | fear |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | alarm, apprehension |
| Synonyms: | abhorrence, agitation, angst, anxiety, aversion, awe, bête noire, cold feet*, concern, consternation, cowardice, despair, dismay, disquietude, distress, doubt, dread, foreboding, fright, funk*, horror, jitters, misgiving, nightmare, panic, phobia, presentiment, qualm, reverence, revulsion, scare, suspicion, terror, timidity, tremor, trepidation, uneasiness, worry, chickenheartedness, cold sweat, creeps, discomposure, faintheartedness, recreancy, trembling, unease |
| Antonyms: | bravery, courage, heroism, unconcern, fearlessness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | give in/give up |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | admit defeat |
| Synonyms: | abandon, back down*, bail out*, bow out*, buckle under, capitulate, cave in*, cease, cede, chicken out*, collapse, comply, concede, cry uncle*, cut out, desist, despair, drop, drop like a hot potato, fold, forswear, hand over, leave off, pull out, quit, relinquish, resign, stop, submit, surrender, take the oath, throw in the towel, waive, walk out on, wash one's hands of, yield |
| Antonyms: | fight, hold out, stand up to, withstand |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | gloom |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | melancholy, depression |
| Synonyms: | anguish, bitterness, blue devils, blue funk, blues*, chagrin, dejection, desolation, despair, despondency, discouragement, distress, doldrums, dolor, dullness, dumps*, foreboding, grief, heaviness, horror, malaise, misery, misgiving, mourning, oppression, pessimism, sadness, sorrow, unhappiness, vexation, weariness, woe, catatonia, cheerlessness, disconsolateness, dismals, downheartedness, heavy-heartedness, low spirits, mopes, morbidity, pensiveness, saturninity |
| Antonyms: | animation, cheer, encouragement, happiness, joy, sparkle, contentedness, vivaciousness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | grief |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mental suffering |
| Synonyms: | affliction, agony, anguish, bereavement, care, dejection, depression, desolation, despair, despondency, discomfort, disquiet, distress, dole, dolor, gloom, grievance, harassment, heartache, heartbreak, lamenting, malaise, melancholy, misery, mortification, mourning, pain, purgatory, regret, remorse, rue, sadness, sorrow, torture, trial, tribulation, trouble, unhappiness, vexation, woe, worry, wretchedness, bemoaning, bewailing, deploring, infelicity, lamentation, mournfulness, repining |
| Antonyms: | delight, ecstasy, exhilaration, happiness |
| Main Entry: | heartache |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | anguish, sorrow |
| Synonyms: | affliction, agony, bitterness, dejection, depression, despair, despondency, distress, dolor, grief, heartbreak, heavy heart, misery, pang, remorse, sadness, suffering, torment, torture, broken heart, hurting |
| Main Entry: | heartbreak |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mental or emotional misery |
| Synonyms: | affliction, agony, anguish, bale, bitterness, care, desolation, despair, distress, grief, heartache, heavy heart*, pain, regret, remorse, rue, sorrow, suffering, torment, torture, woe, broken heart, heartsickness |
| Antonyms: | happiness, joy, love |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | malaise |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | depression, sickness |
| Synonyms: | angst, anxiety, debility, decrepitude, despair, discomfort, disquiet, distress, doldrums, feebleness, illness, infirmity, lassitude, melancholy, pain, uneasiness, weakness, enervation, infirmness, sickliness, unease, unhealthiness |
| Antonyms: | good health, healthiness, well being |
| Main Entry: | melancholy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | depression, sadness |
| Synonyms: | blue devils, blue funk, blues*, boredom, bummer*, dejection, despair, desperation, despondency, dolor, downer*, dumps, ennui, funk, gloom, grief, letdown, misery, sorrow, tedium, unhappiness, woe, wretchedness, blahs, dismals, dolefuls, down trip, gloominess, low spirits, miserableness, mopes, mournfulness, pensiveness, wistfulness |
| Antonyms: | cheer, happiness, joy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | misery |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | pain, mental or physical |
| Synonyms: | ache, agony, anguish, bad news*, blues*, depression, desolation, despair, despondency, discomfort, distress, dolor, gloom, grief, hardship, headache, heartache, melancholy, pang, passion, sadness, sorrow, squalor, stitch, suffering, throe, torment, torture, twinge, unhappiness, woe, worry, wretchedness, anvil chorus, hurting, worriment |
| Antonyms: | cheer, delight, fun, gladness, happiness, joy, pleasure |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | mope |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | pout, be dejected |
| Synonyms: | ache, be apathetic, be down in the mouth, be gloomy, be in a funk, bleed*, brood, chafe, despair, despond, droop, eat one's heart out, fret, grieve, grumble, grump, idle, lament, languish, lose heart, moon, pine, pine away, regret, repine, sink, stew over, sulk, sweat over, waste time*, wear a long face, yearn |
| Antonyms: | be elated, be happy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | pessimism |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | belief in bad outcome |
| Synonyms: | cynicism, dejection, depression, despair, despondency, distrust, gloom, grief, melancholy, sadness, unhappiness, dark side, dim view, dyspepsia, expectation of worst, gloominess, gloomy outlook, glumness, hopelessness, low spirits |
| Antonyms: | confidence, optimism, trust |
| Main Entry: | worry |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | be or make anxious, troubled |
| Synonyms: | afflict, aggrieve, agonize, ail, annoy, attack, bedevil, beleaguer, beset, bite one's nails, bother, brood, bug*, chafe, concern oneself, depress, despair, disquiet, distress, disturb, dun, feel uneasy, fret, gnaw at, go for*, goad, harass, harry, hassle, have qualms, hector, importune, irritate, needle, oppress, persecute, perturb, pester, plague, stew*, sweat out*, take on, tantalize, tear, tease, test, torment, torture, trouble, try, unsettle, upset, vex, wince, writhe, wrong |
| Antonyms: | reassure |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | despondency |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dejection |
| Synonyms: | depression, despair, gloom, grief, sadness |
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