Translations: the word in the other languages
- Afrikaans: desperaatheid
- Amharic: የሚሰጡዋቸውን
- Arabic: اليأس
- Azerbaijani: ümidsizlik
- Bashkir: өмөтһөҙлөк
- Belarusian: адчай
- Bulgarian: отчаяние
- Bengali: হতাশা
- Bosnian: očaja
- Catalan: la desesperació
- Cebuano: desperasyon
- Czech: zoufalství
- Welsh: anobaith
- Danish: desperation
- German: Verzweiflung
- Greek: απελπισία
- Esperanto: malespero
- Spanish: la desesperación
- Estonian: meeleheites
- Basque: etsipena
- Persian: ناامیدی
- Finnish: epätoivo
- French: le désespoir
- Irish: éadóchais
- Scottish Gaelic: desperation
- Galician: desesperación
- Gujarati: નિરાશામાં
- Hebrew: ייאוש
- Hindi: हताशा
- Croatian: očaj
- Haitian: dekourajman
- Hungarian: kétségbeesés
- Armenian: հուսահատության
- Indonesian: putus asa
- Icelandic: örvæntingu
- Italian: la disperazione
- Japanese: 絶
- Javanese: desperation
- Georgian: სასოწარკვეთას
- Kazakh: торығу
- Khmer: អស់សង្ឃឹម
- Kannada: ಹತಾಶೆಯಲ್ಲಿ
- Korean: 절망
- Kyrgyz: кайгы
- Latin: desperationem
- Luxembourgish: Verzweiflung
- Lao: ສິ້ນ
- Lithuanian: neviltis
- Latvian: izmisums
- Malagasy: fahakiviana
- Mari: йӧсӧ
- Maori: i te hepohepo
- Macedonian: очај
- Malayalam: പരാധീനതയും
- Mongolian: цөхрөнгөө барсан
- Marathi: तसं
- Hill Mari: йӓнг
- Malay: keadaan terdesak
- Maltese: disprament
- Burmese: အလွန်ဆိုးဝါး
- Nepali: desperation
- Dutch: wanhoop
- Norwegian: desperasjon
- Punjabi: ਹਤਾਸ਼ਾ
- Papiamento: e destrukshon
- Polish: rozpacz
- Portuguese: desespero
- Romanian: disperare
- Russian: отчаяние
- Sinhalese: මංමුලාව
- Slovak: zúfalstvo
- Slovenian: obup
- Albanian: dëshpërimi
- Serbian: очај
- Sundanese: desperation
- Swedish: desperation
- Swahili: kukata tamaa
- Tamil: விரக்தி
- Telugu: నిరాశలో
- Tajik: отчаяние
- Thai: วามสิ้นหวัง
- Tagalog: pagkawalang-taros
- Turkish: çaresizlik
- Tatar: отчаяние
- Udmurt: чигиськон
- Ukrainian: відчай
- Urdu: مایوسی
- Uzbek: ilojsizlik
- Vietnamese: sự tuyệt vọng
- Xhosa: desperation
- Yiddish: דעספּעריישין
- Chinese: 绝望
Synonyms, close and similar words for desperation
- despair
- despondency
- despondence
- hopelessness
- desolation
- frustration
- forlornness
- recklessness
- foolhardiness
- temerity
- folly