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Pronounce Despair as D EH S P AH IY R.

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    Despair phonetic transcription:

    When you start learning English, it's important to become familiar with the typical sounds of the language. The best way to do this is by studying phonetics. Below is the UK transcription for the word 'despair'. Get the right phonetic representation for any word using our free Phonetic Transcription Tool.

    • Traditional IPA representation of despair: /dɛspæɪr/
    • Modern IPA representation of despair: /dɛspæɪr/

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    List of meaning for despair

    loss of hope; utter hopelessness

    despair, desperation(noun)

    a state in which all hope is lost or absent

    "in the depths of despair"; "they were rescued from despair at the last minute"; "courage born of desperation"

    despair(verb)

    the feeling that everything is wrong and nothing will turn out well

    "they moaned in despair and dismay"; "one harsh word would send her into the depths of despair"

    despair(verb)

    abandon hope; give up hope; lose heart

    "Don't despair--help is on the way!"

    utter loss of hope

    the endless drought drove the farmers to despair

    the state of being discouraged

    the other team's temporary lead caused some momentary despair

    to lose all hope or confidence

    we despaired when we saw how little time we had left to complete our project

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    1. Upon losing the elections, a miasma of despair enveloped the assembled, because they had all rooted for Molly.

    2. The people were driven into despair when a gigantic tornado swept through their small town destroying many homes.

    3. My brother’s unexpected and long-winded cry of fake despair was overly dramatic considering that all he had done was drop an ice cream cone.

    4. She would have been justified to feel a sense of despair after losing her family, but instead she felt the need to keep going.

    5. The hateful man thrived off of wickedness and cruelty, doing his best to bring despair to others.

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    There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is only the comparison of one state with another. Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss. It is necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good life is to live.

    – Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

    For I say unto you in all sadness of conviction that to think great thoughts you must be heroes as well as idealists. Only when you have worked alone -- when you have felt around you are a black gulf of solitude more isolating than that which surrounds the dying man, and in hope and despair have trusted to your own unshaken will -- then only can you gain the secret isolated joy of the thinker, who knows that a hundred years after he is dead and forgotten men who have never heard of him will be moving to the measure of his thought -- the subtle rapture of postponed power, which the world knows not because it has no external trappings, but which to his prophetic vision is more real than that which commands an army. And if this joy should not be yours, still it is only thus you can know that you have done what lay in you to do -- can say that you have lived, and be ready for the end.

    – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

    Patience. A minor form of despair disguised as a virtue.

    – Ambrose Bierce

    Discouragement is simply the despair of wounded self-love.

    – Francois de Fenelon

    Drop your weapons and save your souls from an eternity of despair for spreading such evil as war and destruction.

    – Cometan

    Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.

    – H. G. Wells

    Never despair but if you do, work on in despair.

    – Edmund Burke

    Alternatively, fear can lead us to succumb to despair or paralysis or cynicism, fear can feed our most selfish impulses and erode the bonds of community.

    – President Barack Obama

    I felt like someone stuck a knife in my heart because I am always pushing for equality between Arabs and Jews, there is a bit of a feeling of despair because the prime minister is not the prime minister of all citizens, and the right is trying to push the Arabs aside.

    – Zuhair Bahloul

    At first, I was shocked. I was screaming in despair and sadness, but when I gathered my thoughts, I thought, 'This must be wrong; there must be a mistake.'.

    – Anna Amimour

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