Clues for the word "DESPAIR"
We've had 60 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 195 times in crosswords. It was last seen in New Zealand Herald crossword on September 19, 2026.
Definition of despair
- v. i. - To be hopeless; to have no hope; to give up all hope or expectation; -- often with of.
- v. t. - To give up as beyond hope or expectation; to despair of.
- v. t. - To cause to despair.
- n. - Loss of hope; utter hopelessness; complete despondency.
- n. - That which is despaired of.
Referring Clues
- Give up
- Film noir feature
- Hopelessness
- Bad thing to sink into
- Give up all hope
- Loss of hope
- Down state
- Abandon hope
- Hopeless feeling
- Lose hope
- Heartache
- Lose heart
- Very blue state
- Woe
- Utter hopelessness
- Hopeless
- Low state
- Give up hope
- "The shadow of a starless night," per Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Give up hope of training a spider?
- Hopelessness I spread about
- Lose hope, changing diapers
- Be without hope
- Total loss of hope
- Desperation
- Misery for some French couple
- Some from Provence with piano tune conveying gloom
- Be hopeless, yet somehow get praised
- Hopelessness of a chap getting two ducks
- Opposite of 10
- Paradise Lost - a source of gloom
- Literary giant in the cave of Trophonius
- Aspired to be a giant in the literary world
- Feeling of boy getting two ducks?
- Padre is sunk in gloom
- Great woe
- A spider possibly saved Bruce from it
- Is padre in disguise? Give up
- Slough's pride's dented over finale of Aida ...
- Endless desire to bottle up father's gloom
- Distress of man meeting couple
- Misery of the French couple
- Abandon hope of the French match
- Lose hope when changing diapers
- No hope of French couple's son getting ahead
- Lose heart as pride injured
- Wrongly praised, padre is unlikely to lose heart
- Beginning to doubt psychic power, express loss of hope
- Black mood of the French couple
- Turned free to shroud recess in gloom
- Be hopeless at naming twins
- Lose or be without hope
- Give up a random ride round a resort
- Give up hope of training a spider?
- Feeling of hopelessness
- When spring comes, in dire trouble, lose heart
- The complete absence of hope
- Despond
- By spring in dire trouble, lose hope
- Lose all hope
Last Seen In
- New Zealand Herald - September 19, 2026
- Evening Standard Easy - September 07, 2026
- Mirror Daily - August 24, 2026
- New Zealand Herald - August 23, 2026
- Mirror Daily - July 27, 2026
- Evening Standard Cryptic - July 22, 2026
- New Zealand Herald - July 14, 2026
- Daily Cryptic - July 09, 2026
- Evening Standard Quick - July 09, 2026
- Daily Quick - June 18, 2026
- Mirror Daily - March 25, 2026
- Evening Standard Easy - March 19, 2026
- Evening Standard Cryptic - March 06, 2026
- Daily Quick - December 05, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - November 21, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - November 21, 2025
- Your Life Choices - October 24, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - October 14, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - October 08, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - September 27, 2025
- Daily Quick - August 17, 2025
- Your Life Choices - August 14, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - July 31, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - July 18, 2025
- Daily Quick - May 27, 2025
- Mirror Daily - May 18, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - May 06, 2025
- Mirror Daily - April 27, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - April 07, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - March 14, 2025
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