despaired
Gave up completely
Despaired is the past tense of despair—to lose all hope or confidence.
Someone who despaired gave up believing that a situation could improve: She despaired of ever finding work.
The word often appears with "of" to indicate what hope was abandoned: He despaired of his son's future.
Deeply discouraged, hopeless
- resignedYielded to circumstances
- fatalisticBelieving events are inevitable
- bleakDreary and without cheer
- discouragedHaving lost confidence or enthusiasm
disheartened · helpless · powerless · dejected · defeatist · futility · giving up · lost cause
despondent
Deeply discouraged, hopeless
- resignedYielded to circumstances
- fatalisticBelieving events are inevitable
- bleakDreary and without cheer
discouraged · disheartened · helpless · powerless · dejected · defeatist · futility · giving up · lost cause · rock bottom
agony
Extreme physical or emotional pain
- tormentSevere prolonged suffering
- sufferingSustained experience of distress
- griefIntense sorrow from loss
sorrow · heartache · misery · distress · pain · woe · desolation · trauma · lamentation · bereavement
abandoned
Left behind completely
forsaken · isolated · cast out · left behind · forgotten · solitary · adrift · estranged · outcast · alone
- surrenderedsurrendered, capitulated, yielded, conceded, submitted
despairedhoped
Wanted with expectation
believed · kept faith · trusted · expected · anticipated
- pit of despairState of profound hopelessness
- deep despair
- romantic despairAnguish over failed love
- existential despairAnguish at life's meaninglessness
- climate despairHopelessness about environmental collapse
- compare and despairJudging yourself against others negatively