self-despair

noun

Definition of self-despairnext
as in sorrow

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for self-despair
  1. sorrow
  2. dejection
  3. melancholy
  4. oppression
  5. self-pity
  6. despair
  7. gloom
  8. depression
Noun
  • There will always be a stream of sorrow flowing under my feet.
    Christine Pride, SELF, 21 Nov. 2024
  • So why the slight tinge of sorrow in her announcement?
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 19 Nov. 2024
Definition of sorrow
Noun
  • Through June 2019, Zoe’s Kitchen was still rapidly deteriorating, and its financial losses and worker dejection were taking a toll on Cava.
    Jason Ma, Fortune, 30 Sep. 2024
  • Watson missed out on an additional $40,000 in the bonus round, prompting him to moan in dejection.
    Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 10 Sep. 2024
Definition of dejection
Noun
  • To say more about the plot would spoil the film too much, but Ryder is really a chameleon, flickering between quiet melancholy, genuine affection, and darker, more selfish concerns, and the rotoscoping art style accentuates the expressiveness of her face.
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 6 Sep. 2024
  • At 78, Ferry reigns as the elder statesman of rock-star romantics, the king of elegant melancholy.
    Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 21 Oct. 2024
Definition of melancholy
Noun
  • Cera will play a naïve rebel who tries to help the desperate man, while Jones is playing a privileged woman blind to the oppression of the government.
    Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Oct. 2024
  • Additionally, a 2022 study published in Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders found that masking is tied to the social oppression of autistic people.
    Mark Travers, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2024
Definition of oppression
Noun
  • Matty’s mixed-up feelings about Ellie — a combination of rage, grief, self-pity, and self-recrimination — may end up having a profound effect on how her mission within Jacobson-Moore plays out.
    Noel Murray, Vulture, 14 Nov. 2024
  • At some point between his second-inning exit, and the Dodgers’ historic rally in the top of the fifth, a dispirited Flaherty decided against any further self-pity.
    Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2024
Definition of self-pity
Noun
  • The song puts me in a state of deep despair — these haunting strings and ghostly pianos and synthesizers.
    Nate Sloan, Vulture, 12 Nov. 2024
  • When the Great Depression hit in the early 1930s, Hitler and his followers were ready to take advantage of the German people’s despair and to focus their attention on a scapegoat—the political left and the Jews—as support for centrist political parties eroded.
    Christine Adams / Made by History, TIME, 5 Nov. 2024
Definition of despair
Noun
  • Doom and gloom First released in North America on Nov. 21, 2004, the Nintendo DS arrived at a time when the air around the company was thick with the looming threat of defeat.
    Ryan Gaur, Rolling Stone, 19 Nov. 2024
  • Western red cedar, and the thick gloom of western hemlocks with their feathery branches, loom large.
    Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 15 Oct. 2024
Definition of gloom
Noun
  • The Fed’s duties expanded after the Great Depression, another crisis that was triggered by a stock market crash and made worse by an agricultural depression brought on by unsustainable farming practices, droughts and the Dust Bowl.
    Reco McCambry, Forbes, 21 Nov. 2024
  • Postpartum depression symptoms can include persistent feelings of sadness, lack of interest in activities, eating and sleep disturbances and excessive irritability or crying.
    Dr. Esther Zusstone, ABC News, 20 Nov. 2024
Definition of depression
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Thesaurus Entries Near self-despair

self-deprecatory

self-despair

self-destruct

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