{
  "pronunciations": {
    "phonetic": "d\u0259\u02c8sp\u025br",
    "listenurl": "/var/www/html/blab/mp3/dic/despair.mp3",
    "transkor": "\uc808\ub9dd"
  },
  "meansorg": [
    {
      "type": "Noun",
      "etymologies": "Middle English: the noun via Anglo-Norman French from Old French desespeir; the verb from Old French desperer, from Latin desperare, from de- \u2018down from\u2019 + sperare \u2018to hope\u2019",
      "definitions": "the complete loss or absence of hope",
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "hopelessness"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "desperation"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "distress"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "anguish"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "pain"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "unhappiness"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        "\n              in despair, I hit the bottle",
        "\n              driven to despair, he throws himself under a train"
      ]
    },
    {
      "type": "Verb",
      "etymologies": "",
      "definitions": "lose or be without hope",
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "lose hope"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "give up hope"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "abandon hope"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "give up"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "lose heart"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "be discouraged"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "be despondent"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "be demoralized"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "resign oneself"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "throw in the sponge"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "throw in the towel"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "quit"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "surrender"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "hopeless"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "desperate"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "anguished"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "distressed"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "broken-hearted"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "heartbroken"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "grief-stricken"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "inconsolable"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "sorrowing"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "suicidal"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "in despair"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        "we should not despair",
        "he was beginning to despair of ever knowing"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "meanskor": [
    {
      "type": "\uba85\uc0ac",
      "etymologies": "\uc911\uc138 \uc601\uc5b4: \uace0\ub300 \ud504\ub791\uc2a4\uc5b4 desespeir\uc5d0\uc11c \uc575\uae00\ub85c-\ub178\ub974\ub9cc \ud504\ub791\uc2a4\uc5b4\ub97c \ud1b5\ud55c \uba85\uc0ac; \uace0\ub300 \ud504\ub791\uc2a4\uc5b4 desperer\uc758 \ub3d9\uc0ac, \ub77c\ud2f4\uc5b4 desperare, de-'down from' + sperare 'to hope'",
      "definitions": "\ud76c\ub9dd\uc758 \uc644\uc804\ud55c \uc0c1\uc2e4 \ub610\ub294 \ubd80\uc7ac",
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "hopelessness"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "desperation"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "distress"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "anguish"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "pain"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "unhappiness"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        "\uc808\ub9dd \uc18d\uc5d0\uc11c, \ub098\ub294 \ubcd1\uc744 \ucce4\ub2e4.",
        "\uc808\ub9dd\uc5d0 \ube60\uc9c4 \uadf8\ub294 \uae30\ucc28 \uc544\ub798\ub85c \ubab8\uc744 \ub358\uc9c4\ub2e4."
      ]
    },
    {
      "type": "\ub3d9\uc0ac",
      "etymologies": "",
      "definitions": "\ud76c\ub9dd\uc774 \uc5c6\ub2e4",
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "lose hope"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "give up hope"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "abandon hope"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "give up"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "lose heart"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "be discouraged"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "be despondent"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "be demoralized"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "resign oneself"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "throw in the sponge"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "throw in the towel"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "quit"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "surrender"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "hopeless"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "desperate"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "anguished"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "distressed"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "broken-hearted"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "heartbroken"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "grief-stricken"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "inconsolable"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "sorrowing"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "suicidal"
        },
        {
          "language": "en",
          "text": "in despair"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        "\uc6b0\ub9ac\ub294 \uc808\ub9dd\ud574\uc11c\ub294 \uc548 \ub41c\ub2e4.",
        "\uadf8\ub294 \uc601\uc6d0\ud788 \uc54c\uc9c0 \ubabb\ud560 \uac83\uc774\ub77c\uace0 \uc808\ub9dd\ud558\uae30 \uc2dc\uc791\ud588\ub2e4."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "allphrases": [
    "be the despair of"
  ],
  "arrphraseskor": [
    "\uc758 \uc808\ub9dd\uc774\ub2e4"
  ]
}