Thesaurus / despair
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The concertina wire marking the edge of his homeland triggers Vanishvili’s border cells to fire every time he sees it, and in turn, that firing may trigger the despair associated with that place.
HOW BORDER WALLS TRICK THE HUMAN BRAIN AND PSYCHEJESSICA WAPNEROCTOBER 2, 2020POPULAR SCIENCEIn the first movement of his Fifth Symphony, Beethoven set up a battle between hope and despair.
BEETHOVEN’S 5TH SYMPHONY IS A LESSON IN FINDING HOPE IN ADVERSITYCHARLIE HARDINGSEPTEMBER 11, 2020VOXIt’s my job, I’ve begun to think, to make sure that people in this “climate generation” don’t get swallowed up in an ocean of despair.
GENERATION Z IS ‘TRAUMATIZED’ BY CLIMATE CHANGE—AND THEY’RE THE KEY TO FIGHTING ITMATTHEWHEIMERAUGUST 19, 2020FORTUNEThis discrepancy can create a feeling of despair when it comes to online reputation management, but this only means that you need to become more proactive about getting reviews from your customers.
ONLINE REPUTATION MANAGEMENT: SEVEN STEPS TO SUCCESSALEH BARYSEVICHJUNE 3, 2020SEARCH ENGINE WATCHAmerica enters the final months of the 2020 campaign in a state of despair and disrepair.
AS MINNEAPOLIS BURNS, TRUMP’S PRESIDENCY IS SINKING DEEPER INTO CRISIS. AND YET, HE MAY STILL BE RE-ELECTEDLGBTQ-EDITORJUNE 2, 2020NO STRAIGHT NEWSDavy read this over two or three times, in the greatest perplexity, and then gave it up in despair.
DAVY AND THE GOBLINCHARLES E. CARRYLPrud'hon, in humiliation and despair, lived in a solitude almost complete.
WOMEN IN THE FINE ARTS, FROM THE SEVENTH CENTURY B.C. TO THE TWENTIETH CENTURY A.D.CLARA ERSKINE CLEMENTThe falling dew, and the howling wind raised him not from that bed of lonely despair.
THE PASTOR'S FIRE-SIDE VOL. 3 OF 4JANE PORTERBut the '34 port was so good that he revoked twice, to the indignation and despair of his unhappy brother and partner.
THE PIT TOWN CORONET, VOLUME I (OF 3)CHARLES JAMES WILLSAs they got lower and lower down the hill, her wretchedness and disquiet became acute, to the point of a wild despair.
HILDA LESSWAYSARNOLD BENNETTSYNONYM OF THE DAY
JUNE 20, 2021
WORDS RELATED TO DESPAIR
- abandons
- back down
- bails out
- bows out
- buckles under
- capitulates
- caves in
- ceases
- cedes
- chickens out
- collapses
- complies
- concedes
- cries uncle
- cuts out
- desists
- despairs
- drops
- drops like a hot potato
- folds
- forswears
- hands over
- leaves off
- pulls out
- quits
- relinquishes
- resigns
- stops
- submits
- surrenders
- takes the oath
- throws in the towel
- waives
- walks out on
- washes one's hands of
- yields
- abandoning
- back down
- bailing out
- bowing out
- buckling under
- capitulating
- caving in
- ceasing
- ceding
- chickening out
- collapsing
- complying
- conceding
- crying uncle
- cutting out
- desisting
- despairing
- dropping
- dropping like a hot potato
- folding
- forswearing
- handing over
- leaving off
- pulling out
- quitting
- relinquishing
- resigning
- stopping
- submitting
- surrendering
- taking the oath
- throwing in the towel
- waiving
- walking out on
- washing one's hands of
- yielding
- anguish
- bitterness
- blue devils
- blue funk
- blues
- catatonia
- chagrin
- cheerlessness
- dejection
- desolation
- despair
- despondency
- disconsolateness
- discouragement
- dismals
- distress
- doldrums
- dolor
- downheartedness
- dullness
- dumps
- foreboding
- grief
- heaviness
- heavy-heartedness
- horror
- low spirits
- malaise
- misery
- misgiving
- morbidity
- mourning
- oppression
- pensiveness
- pessimism
- sadness
- saturninity
- sorrow
- unhappiness
- vexation
- weariness
- woe
- affliction
- agony
- anguish
- bemoaning
- bereavement
- care
- dejection
- deploring
- depression
- desolation
- despair
- despondency
- discomfort
- disquiet
- distress
- dole
- dolor
- gloom
- grievance
- harassment
- heartache
- heartbreak
- infelicity
- lamentation
- lamenting
- malaise
- melancholy
- misery
- mortification
- mournfulness
- mourning
- pain
- purgatory
- regret
- remorse
- repining
- rue
- sadness
- sorrow
- torture
- trial
- tribulation
- trouble
- unhappiness
- vexation
- woe
- worry
- wretchedness
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