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.