total despair

Frequency: 7.19.5 per million words

Signifies a state of absolute hopelessness.

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Examples (10)

  • After losing his job and home in the same week, he fell into a state of total despair.
  • The look on her face was one of total despair as she watched the ship sink.
  • His repeated failures to find a cure left the scientist in total despair.
  • The citizens were overcome with total despair following the dictator's speech.
  • Reading her final letter, I understood the total despair she must have felt.
  • The team's manager could only watch in total despair as they lost the championship in the final seconds.
  • What began as sadness slowly transformed into total despair over the long, lonely winter.
  • Faced with the ruins of their city, the survivors felt a collective sense of total despair.
  • Despite the grim prognosis, he refused to give in to total despair.
  • Her silence spoke of a total despair that words could not express.