KEY: Despair \n.\
SYN: Hopelessness, despondency, desperation.
ANT: Hopefulness, elation, anticipation, hilarity, confidence, sanguineness, expectation.
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KEY: Despair \v.\
SYN: Despond, faint.
ANT: Hope, trust, confide, rely, presume, rally.
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KEY: Desperate.
SYN: Wild, daring, audacious, determined, reckless, abandoned, rash, furious, frantic, despairing, regardless, mad, desponding, hapless, inextricable, irremediable.