Despair

v. i.	1.	To be hopeless; to have no hope; to give up all hope or expectation; - often with of. [imp. & p. p. Despaired ; p. pr. & vb. n. Despairing.] We despaired even of life. - 2 Cor. i. 8. Never despair of God's blessings here. - Wake.
v. t.	1.	To give up as beyond hope or expectation; to despair of. I would not despair the greatest design that could be attempted. - Milton.
	2.	To cause to despair.
n.	1.	Loss of hope; utter hopelessness; complete despondency. We in dark dreams are tossing to and fro, Pine with regret, or sicken with despair. - Keble. Before he [Bunyan] was ten, his sports were interrupted by fits of remorse and despair. - Macaulay.
	2.	That which is despaired of.

Noun	1.	despair - a state in which everything seems wrong and will turn out badly; "they were rescued from despair at the last minute" Synonyms: desperation
	2.	despair - the feeling that everything is wrong and nothing will turn out well Antonyms: hope - the general feeling that some desire will be fulfilled; "in spite of his troubles he never gave up hope"
Verb	1.	despair - abandon hope; give up hope; lose heart; "Don't despair--help is on the way!" Antonyms: hope - be optimistic; be full of hope; have hopes; "I am still hoping that all will turn out well"

To dream that you are in despair, signifies that you will have many hardships and experience much cruelties in the working world. To dream that others are in despair, denotes that some friend or relative will be in great distress and find themselves in a unhappy situation.Schmerz, Slough of Despond, abandon, abandon hope, acedia, aching heart, agony, agony of mind, anguish, apathy, bale, become suicidal, bitterness, blank despondency, bleeding heart, broken heart, cave of Trophonius, cave of despair, crushing, death wish, dejectedness, dejection, depth of misery, desolation, despair of, desperateness, desperation, despond, despondentness, disconsolateness, disheartenment, dispiritedness, distress, down trip, downcastness, downer, downheartedness, droop, drooping spirits, drop, extremity, falter, forlornness, give up, give up hope, give way, gloominess, grief, heartache, heartlessness, heavy heart, hit rock bottom, infelicity, languish, lose heart, lose hope, low spirits, lowness, lowness of spirit, malaise, melancholia, melancholy, miserableness, misery, no exit, no way, no way out, oppression, plumb the depths, prostration, quit, reach the depths, relinquish, renounce, resign, resignation, sadness, self-destructive urge, sink, sink into despair, sinking heart, sloth, spiritlessness, suicidal despair, surrender, taedium vitae, touch bottom, weariness of life, woe, wretchedness, yield, yield to despair

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