désespérant, -e, adj., desperate, hopeless, discouraging, disheartening; distressing; provoking; matchless.
désespéré, -e, part., hopeless, desperate; disconsolate, despondent, disheartened.
désespéré, n.m., -e, n.f., madman, madwoman; person in despair. Se battre en —; to fight desperately. Agir en —; to behave like a madman.
désespérément, adv., desperately, despairingly; hopelessly.
désespérer, v.n., to despair, to despond, to give up all hope. — de quelqu’un, de quelque chose; to despair of any one, of anything; to give up any one, anything, for lost.
désespérer, v.a., to drive to despair; to dishearten; to dispirit; to distress, to torment.
se désespérer, v.r., to be in despair, to give way to despair, to despond.
désespoir, n.m., despair; hopelessness, desperation, despondency; grief, affliction. Être au —; to be in despair, distress; to be vexed, grieved. Mettre au —; to drive to despair; to vex extremely. Tomber dans le —; to sink into despair. De —; through despair. En — de cause; as a last resource, shift.
*déshabillé (dé-za-), n.m., dishabille, undress. — du matin; morning dress or wrapper.
*déshabiller (dé-za-), v.a., to undress, to strip, to disrobe.