All 3 Uses of
despair
in
Metamorphosis
- Their business misfortune had reduced the family to a state of total despair,
Part 2 *despair = hopelessness
- ...the main thing holding the family back from their decision to move was much more to do with their total despair, and the thought that they had been struck with a misfortune unlike anything experienced by anyone else they knew or were related to.
Part 3
- Meanwhile Gregor's sister had overcome the despair she had fallen into when her playing was suddenly interrupted.
Part 3
Definitions:
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(1)
(despair as in: she felt despair) hopelessness; or distress (such as extreme worry or sadness from feeling powerless to change a bad situation)
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(2)
(despair as in: do not despair) lose hope or feel distress
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(3)
(despair as in: she was the despair of the team) something that causes hopelessness or great distress