despair

/dɪˈspɛr/

意味: 絶望

例文: Fluffin sank into cookie despair.
　　  フラッフィンがクッキー絶望に沈んだ。

言葉のよくある組み合わせ: feel despair(絶望を感じる), fall into despair(絶望に陥る), cause despair(絶望を引き起こす)

定義: 絶望は、希望や期待が全くない状態を指します。何かがうまくいかないと感じたり、未来に良いことが起こる見込みがないと感じるときに経験する感情です。

despairは約200,000語に1回程度の頻出度です。

口語性、形式性、抽象度、感情度

水平グラフ: 会話での使われやすさ、フォーマル度、抽象度（具体・概念）、感情度を示します。数値が高いほど、その特徴が強いことを表します。

感情分析

レーダーチャート: 怒り、期待、嫌悪、恐れ、喜び、悲しみ、驚き、信頼、ポジティブ、ネガティブの強さを示します。

　年代別単語頻度グラフ

このグラフは、1900年からの単語出現頻度の推移を示しています。値は ×10⁻⁸ スケールで表示されています。

　

Definitions(定義)

Noun: a state in which all hope is lost or absent
Noun: the feeling that everything is wrong and nothing will turn out well
Verb: abandon hope; give up hope; lose heart

Parts of Speech(品詞)

Noun, Verb

Examples(例文)

感情分析に使用された例文：

She felt a wave of despair wash over her.(彼女は絶望の波に襲われた。)
I can’t believe you’re giving up; don’t lose hope in despair!(諦めるなんて信じられない；絶望の中でも希望を失わないで！)
In the face of despair, he found the strength to persevere.(絶望の中で、彼は耐える力を見つけた。)

 

Word Netから抽出した例文：

Noun: in the depths of despair
Noun: they were rescued from despair at the last minute
Noun: courage born of desperation
Noun: they moaned in despair and dismay
Noun: one harsh word would send her into the depths of despair
Verb: Don’t despair–help is on the way!

Synonyms/Antonyms(類語/反意語)

Synonyms(類語): despair, desperation

Antonyms(反意語): hope

Hypernyms/Hyponyms(上位語/下位語)

Hypernyms (General categories)(上位語): condition, feeling

Coordinate Terms(同じ上位語をもつもの): absolution, affect, affection, agitation, ambivalence, anchorage, apathy, astigmatism, astonishment, atmosphere, atonicity, automation, brutalization, calmness, celibacy, circumstance, climate, comfort, complex, condemnation, curvature, danger, decline, deification, desire, despair, devastation, difficulty, discomfort, dishabille, dislike, disorderliness, diversification, diversity, dominance, dryness, economic condition, emotion, emptiness, encapsulation, ennoblement, enthusiasm, environmental condition, exoneration, expectation, eye condition, facilitation, faintness, fearlessness, financial condition, frizz, fruition, fullness, glow, gratitude, gravity, guilt, hairlessness, happiness, health, homelessness, hope, hopefulness, hospitalization, humility, hyalinization, identification, immunity, impaction, impropriety, improvement, impurity, ingratitude, iniquity, innocence, ionization, irradiation, lactosuria, laxness, leakiness, levity, light, liking, lubrication, malady, mechanization, mode, motivation, mummification, mutism, nakedness, need, niche, noise conditions, nomination, normality, orderliness, pain, pang, participation, passion, physical condition, place, pleasure, polarization, prepossession, preservation, pride, prognathism, protuberance, psychological state, purity, regularization, reinstatement, repair, rustication, rustiness, sadness, safety, sanitary condition, saturation, scandalization, sensitivity, sentiment, serration, sex, shame, silence, situation, ski conditions, soul, soundness, standardization, stigmatism, submission, subservience, susceptibility, sympathy, temper, tension, thing, tilth, unconcern, unsoundness, unsusceptibility, urbanization, vacuolization, virginity, way, wetness

Hyponyms (Specific examples)(下位語): despond, discouragement, hopelessness, pessimism, resignation

Derivationally Related Words(派生語)

Derivationally Related Words: despair, desperate, desperation

Categories(カテゴリー)

Domain Categories: psychology

Usage Category: common

Usage Context: descriptive, emotional

Grammatical Notes:
transitive verb

Prefixes/Suffixes(接頭辞/接尾辞)

Prefixes(接頭辞): de

Suffixes(接尾辞):

Exam Level

高校レベル

英検準1級

Media Appearance(メディア登場例)

Books(洋書): Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Holes

Movies(映画): Frozen

Other Information(その他)

Is Abstract?(抽象的な言葉?) Yes

Is Emotion Word?(感情的な言葉?) Yes

Emotion Categories: anger, disgust, fear, negative, sadness