Definitions for "Despair"
To be hopeless; to have no hope; to give up all hope or expectation; -- often with of.
To give up as beyond hope or expectation; to despair of.
Loss of hope; utter hopelessness; complete despondency.
a fascinating work of true crime literature and a singular book by one of the most defiantly original writers of our time
Despair is one of the Endless, fictional characters from Neil Gaiman's comic book series, The Sandman.
Despair (Отчаяние (Otchayanie) in Russian) was written by Vladimir Nabokov and originally published as a serial in Sovremennye Zapiski during 1934. It was then published as a book in 1936 and later translated to English by the author in 1937.
a state in which everything seems wrong and will turn out badly; "they were rescued from despair at the last minute"
the feeling that everything is wrong and nothing will turn out well
Keywords:  cause
To cause to despair.
That which is despaired of.