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despair
1. The feeling that someone has that everything is wrong, there is no hope, and nothing will turn out well.
2. The condition in which everything seems wrong and will turn out badly.
3. Someone, or something, that makes a person feel hopeless or exasperated.
4. Etymology: from Old French desperer, "to lose hope, to despair"; from Latin desperare, "to lose hope"; from de-, "without" + sperare, "to hope" from spes, "hope".
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