Translations: the word in the other languages
- Afrikaans: wanhoop
- Amharic: ተስፋ መቁረጥ
- Arabic: اليأس
- Azerbaijani: ümidsizlik
- Bashkir: өмөтһөҙлөк
- Belarusian: адчай
- Bulgarian: отчаяние
- Bengali: হতাশা
- Bosnian: očaj
- Catalan: la desesperació
- Cebuano: pagkawalay paglaum
- Czech: zoufalství
- Welsh: anobaith
- Danish: fortvivlelse
- German: Verzweiflung
- Greek: απελπισία
- Esperanto: malespero
- Spanish: la desesperación
- Estonian: meeleheide
- Basque: etsipen
- Persian: ناامیدی
- Finnish: epätoivo
- French: le désespoir
- Irish: éadóchas
- Scottish Gaelic: despair
- Galician: se desespere
- Gujarati: નિરાશા
- Hebrew: ייאוש
- Hindi: निराशा
- Croatian: očaj
- Haitian: dezespwa
- Hungarian: kétségbeesés
- Armenian: հուսահատության
- Indonesian: asa
- Icelandic: örvænta
- Italian: la disperazione
- Japanese: 絶望
- Javanese: ora kentekan niat
- Georgian: სასოწარკვეთა
- Kazakh: торығу
- Khmer: សង្ឃឹម
- Kannada: ಹತಾಶೆ
- Korean: 절망
- Kyrgyz: кайгы
- Latin: desperatio
- Luxembourgish: Verzweiflung
- Lao: ຫ່ວງ
- Lithuanian: neviltis
- Latvian: izmisums
- Malagasy: famoizam-po
- Mari: йӧсӧ
- Maori: te ahoaho
- Macedonian: очај
- Malayalam: നിരാശയുടെ
- Mongolian: цөхрөл
- Marathi: निराशा
- Hill Mari: йӓнг
- Malay: putus asa
- Maltese: disprament
- Burmese: စိတ်ပျက်အားငယ်
- Nepali: नैराश्यको
- Dutch: wanhoop
- Norwegian: fortvilelse
- Punjabi: ਨਿਰਾਸ਼ਾ
- Papiamento: e destrukshon
- Polish: rozpacz
- Portuguese: desespero
- Romanian: disperare
- Russian: отчаяние
- Sinhalese: බලාපොරොත්තු සුන්
- Slovak: zúfalstvo
- Slovenian: obup
- Albanian: dëshpërim
- Serbian: очај
- Sundanese: asa
- Swedish: förtvivlan
- Swahili: kukata tamaa
- Tamil: விரக்தியிலும்
- Telugu: నిరాశ
- Tajik: отчаяние
- Thai: สิ้นหวัง
- Tagalog: kawalan ng pag-asa
- Turkish: umutsuzluk
- Tatar: отчаяние
- Udmurt: чигиськон
- Ukrainian: відчай
- Urdu: مایوسی
- Uzbek: umidsizlikka
- Vietnamese: tuyệt vọng
- Xhosa: despair
- Yiddish: פאַרצווייפלונג
- Chinese: 绝望
Synonyms, close and similar words for despair
- desperation
- despondency
- despondence
- dismay
- hopelessness
- forlornness
- desolation
- frustration
- distraction
- despond
- fall into despair
- lose heart