All 6 Uses of
despair
in
The Hobbit
- All at once there came a bloodcurdling shriek, filled with hatred and despair. Gollum was defeated. He dared go no further.
Chpt 5 *despair = hopelessness
- Then they knew that Gandalf was going to leave them at the very edge of Mirkwood, and they were in despair.
Chpt 7despair = distress (at inability to improve a bad situation)
- Still he did not see this, and he climbed down full of despair.
Chpt 8despair = hopelessness
- The day after the battle with the spiders Bilbo and the dwarves made one last despairing effort to find a way out before they died of hunger and thirst.
Chpt 9despairing = urgently needed (without knowing how to improve a bad situation)
- In despair and not knowing what else to do, poor little Bilbo caught hold of it and was pushed over the edge with it.
Chpt 9despair = distress (at not knowing how to improve a bad situation)
- But somehow, just when the dwarves were most despairing, Bilbo felt a strange lightening of the heart, as if a heavy weight had gone from under his waistcoat.
Chpt 13despairing = without hope
Definition:
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(despair as in: she felt despair) hopelessness; or distress (such as extreme worry or sadness from feeling powerless to change a bad situation)