(~s, ~ing, ~ed)
1.
Despair is the feeling that everything is wrong and that nothing will improve.
I looked at my wife in ~...
...feelings of ~ or inadequacy.
N-UNCOUNT: also N in pl
2.
If you ~, you feel that everything is wrong and that nothing will improve.
‘Oh, I ~ sometimes,’ he says in mock sorrow...
He does ~ at much of the press criticism.
VERB: V, V at n
3.
If you ~ of something, you feel that there is no hope that it will happen or improve. If you ~ of someone, you feel that there is no hope that they will improve.
He wished to earn a living through writing but ~ed of doing so.
VERB: V of -ing/n