despairとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /dɪˈspɛə(ɹ)/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /dɪˈspɛɚ/
• 韻: -ɛə(ɹ)
• ハイフネーション: des‧pair

動詞

despair (三人称単数 現在形 despairs, 現在分詞 despairing, 過去形および過去分詞形 despaired)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To give up as beyond hope or expectation; to despair of.
   • 1644, John Milton, Areopagitica; a Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc’d Printing, to the Parlament of England, London: [s.n.], →OCLC:

     I would not despair the greatest design that could be attempted.

   • 1854 August 9, Henry D[avid] Thoreau, “Economy”, in Walden; or, Life in the Woods, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC:

     I sometimes despair of getting anything quite simple and honest done in this world by the help of men.

2. (transitive) To cause to despair.
   • 2019, Tim Dee, Landfill:

     Thinking of what I was despairing about despaired me further

3. (intransitive, often with “of”) To be hopeless; to have no hope; to give up all hope or expectation.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 2 Corinthians 1:8:

     We despaired even of life.

派生語

• compare and despair

名詞

despair (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 despairs)

1. Loss of hope; utter hopelessness; complete despondency.

   He turned around in despair, aware that he was not going to survive

2. That which causes despair.
3. That which is despaired of. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

同意語

• desperation
• despondency
• hopelessness

反意語

• hope
• respair

アナグラム

• Piedras, aperids, aspired, diapers, praised, pre-AIDS