| despair | (noun) the feeling that everything is wrong and nothing will turn out well | - |
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| (noun) a state in which all hope is lost or absent | Synonyms: desperation |
| (verb) abandon hope; give up hope; lose heart | - |
| despairing | (adjective) arising from or marked by despair or loss of hope | Synonyms: desperate |
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| despairingly | (adverb) with desperation | Synonyms: despondently |
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| despatch | (noun) the act of sending off something | Synonyms: dispatch, shipment |
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| (noun) killing a person or animal | Synonyms: dispatch |
| (noun) the property of being prompt and efficient | Synonyms: dispatch, expedition, expeditiousness |
| (noun) an official report (usually sent in haste) | Synonyms: communique, dispatch |
| (verb) send away towards a designated goal | Synonyms: dispatch, send off |
| desperado | (noun) a bold outlaw (especially on the American frontier) | Synonyms: desperate criminal |
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| desperate | (adjective) showing extreme courage; especially of actions courageously undertaken in desperation as a last resort | Synonyms: heroic |
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| (adjective) fraught with extreme danger; nearly hopeless | Synonyms: dire |
| (adjective) arising from or marked by despair or loss of hope | Synonyms: despairing |
| (adjective) showing extreme urgency or intensity especially because of great need or desire | - |
| (adjective) desperately determined | Synonyms: do-or-die |
| (adjective) (of persons) dangerously reckless or violent as from urgency or despair | - |
| (noun) a person who is frightened and in need of help | - |
| desperately | (adverb) with great urgency | Synonyms: urgently |
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| (adverb) in intense despair | - |
| desperation | (noun) desperate recklessness | - |
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| (noun) a state in which all hope is lost or absent | Synonyms: despair |
| despicability | (noun) unworthiness by virtue of lacking higher values | Synonyms: baseness, contemptibility, despicableness, sordidness |
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| despicable | (adjective) morally reprehensible | Synonyms: slimy, ugly, unworthy, vile, worthless, wretched |
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| despicableness | (noun) unworthiness by virtue of lacking higher values | Synonyms: baseness, contemptibility, despicability, sordidness |
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| despicably | (adverb) in a despicable manner | - |
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| despisal | (noun) a feeling of scornful hatred | Synonyms: despising |
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| despise | (verb) look down on with disdain | Synonyms: contemn, disdain, scorn |
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| despised | (adjective) treated with dislike or contempt | Synonyms: detested, hated, scorned |
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| despising | (noun) a feeling of scornful hatred | Synonyms: despisal |
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| despite | (noun) contemptuous disregard | - |
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| (noun) lack of respect accompanied by a feeling of intense dislike | Synonyms: contempt, disdain, scorn |
| despiteful | (adjective) showing malicious ill will and a desire to hurt; motivated by spite | Synonyms: spiteful, vindictive |
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| despitefully | (adverb) in a maliciously spiteful manner | Synonyms: spitefully |
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| despoil | (verb) destroy and strip of its possession | Synonyms: plunder, rape, spoil, violate |
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| (verb) steal goods; take as spoils | Synonyms: foray, loot, pillage, plunder, ransack, reave, rifle, strip |
| despoilation | (noun) the act of stripping and taking by force | Synonyms: despoilment, despoliation, spoil, spoilation, spoliation |
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| despoiled | (adjective) having been robbed and destroyed by force and violence | Synonyms: pillaged, raped, ravaged, sacked |
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| despoiler | (noun) someone who takes spoils or plunder (as in war) | Synonyms: freebooter, looter, pillager, plunderer, raider, spoiler |
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| despoilment | (noun) the act of stripping and taking by force | Synonyms: despoilation, despoliation, spoil, spoilation, spoliation |
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| despoliation | (noun) the act of stripping and taking by force | Synonyms: despoilation, despoilment, spoil, spoilation, spoliation |
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| despond | (verb) lose confidence or hope; become dejected | - |
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| despondence | (noun) feeling downcast and disheartened and hopeless | Synonyms: despondency, disconsolateness, heartsickness |
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| despondency | (noun) feeling downcast and disheartened and hopeless | Synonyms: despondence, disconsolateness, heartsickness |
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| despondent | (adjective) without or almost without hope | Synonyms: heartsick |
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| despondently | (adverb) with desperation | Synonyms: despairingly |
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| despot | (noun) a cruel and oppressive dictator | Synonyms: autocrat, tyrant |
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| despotic | (adjective) belonging to or having the characteristics of a despot | Synonyms: despotical |
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| (adjective) characteristic of an absolute ruler or absolute rule; having absolute sovereignty | Synonyms: authoritarian, autocratic, dictatorial, tyrannic, tyrannical |
| (adjective) ruled by or characteristic of a despot | - |
| despotical | (adjective) belonging to or having the characteristics of a despot | Synonyms: despotic |
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| despotism | (noun) a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.) | Synonyms: absolutism, authoritarianism, Caesarism, dictatorship, monocracy, one-man rule, shogunate, Stalinism, totalitarianism, tyranny |
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| (noun) dominance through threat of punishment and violence | Synonyms: absolutism, tyranny |