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Definition: Despair |
DespairNoun1. A state in which everything seems wrong and will turn out badly; "they were rescued from despair at the last minute". 2. The feeling that everything is wrong and nothing will turn out well. Verb1. Abandon hope; give up hope; lose heart; "Don't despair--help is on the way!". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "despair" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
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Dream Interpretation | To be in despair in dreams, denotes that you will have many and cruel vexations in the working world. To see others in despair, foretells the distress and unhappy position of some relative or friend. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Literature | Despair The Giant Despair, in Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, lived in "Doubting Castle." Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Synonym: DespairSynonym: desperation (n). (additional references) |
| Antonym: hope (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Dejection | Prostration of soul; broken heart; despair; cave of despair, cave of Trophonius |
Mope, brood over; fret; sulk; pine, pine away; yearn; repine; (regret); despair. | |
Disconsolate; unconsolable, inconsolable; forlorn, comfortless, desolate, desole, sick at heart; soul sick, heart sick; au desespoir; in despair; lost. | |
Fear | Nervousness, restlessness; Adjective: inquietude, disquietude, worry, concern; batophobia; heartquake; flutter, trepidation, fear and trembling, perturbation, tremor, quivering, shaking, trembling, throbbing heart, palpitation, ague fit, cold sweat; abject fear; (cowardice); mortal funk, heartsinking, despondency; despair. |
Hope | Unsuspecting, unsuspicious; fearless, free from fear, free from suspicion, free from distrust, free from despair, exempt from fear, exempt from suspicion, exempt from distrust, exempt from despair; |
Hopelessness | Verb: despair; lose all hope, give up all hope, abandon all hope, relinquish all hope, lose the hope of, give up the hope of, abandon the hope of, relinquish the hope of; give up, give over; yield to despair; falter; despond; (be dejected); jeter le manche apres la cognee. |
Noun: hopelessness; Adjective: despair, desperation; despondency, depression; (dejection); pessimism, pessimist; Job's comforter; bird of bad omen, bird of ill omen. | |
Inspire despair, drive to despair; Noun: disconcert; dash one's hopes, crush one's hopes, destroy one's hopes; hope against hope. | |
Airy hopes forlorn hope; gone case, dead duck, gone coon; goner; bad job, bad business; enfant perdu; gloomy horizon, black spots in the horizon; slough of Despond, cave of Despair; immedicabile vulnus. | |
Adjective: hopeless, desperate, despairing, gone, in despair, au desespoir, forlorn, desolate; inconsolable; (dejected); broken hearted. | |
Pain | Unhappiness, infelicity, misery, tribulation, wretchedness, desolation; despair; extremity, prostration, depth of misery. |
Grieve; mourn; (lament); yearn, repine, pine, droop, languish, sink; give way; despair; break one's heart; weigh upon the heart; (inflict pain). | |
Concerned, sorry; sorrowing, sorrowful; cut up, chagrined, horrified, horror-stricken; in grief, plunged in grief, a prey to grief; Noun: in tears; (lamenting); steeped to the lips in misery; heart-stricken, heart-broken, heart-scalded; broken-hearted; in despair. | |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Despair |
| English words defined with "despair": awed, awestricken, awestruck ♦ Broken-hearted ♦ Despaired, despairing, desperate, desperately, desperation, discouragement, disheartenment, dismay ♦ hopelessness ♦ in awe of ♦ overpowering, overwhelming ♦ Partenope, psychedelic ♦ resignation ♦ surrender ♦ To break the heart of, To give one's self up ♦ Wanhope. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "despair": Cedars, Climbing, Cock-Crowing, Coins ♦ Devil, Dice, Doubting Castle ♦ Entrails ♦ Famine, Feet, Fingers ♦ Giants ♦ Illness, Inundation ♦ King ♦ Labyrinth, Lawns, Lord, Lorenzo ♦ Mizzah ♦ Negro, Nuns ♦ patience, Phocensian Despair, Pourceaugnac ♦ Ride for a Fall, Running ♦ Sheep, Street, Sword ♦ Well, Window ♦ Ysolde. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "despair": Prosperous. (references) |
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Screenplays | I do not deny that my heart has greatly desired this. In place of a Dark Lord you would have a Queen! Not dark but beautiful and terrible as the Morning! Treacherous as the Sea! Stronger than the foundations of the earth! All shall love me and despair! (The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring; writing credit: Frances Walsh) Whenever I despair, I remember that the way of truth and love has always won. There may be tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they may seem invincible, but in the end, they always fail (Gandhi; writing credit: John Briley) As the years past he fell into despair and lost all hope (Beauty and the Beast; writing credit: Roger Allers; Kelly Asbury) The usual, big square building filled with boredom and despair. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) You are today, but one must never drive one's enemy to despair; it makes him strong (Becket; writing credit: Edward Anhalt; Jean Anouilh) | |
Lyrics | In deep despair on lonely nights (When Smokey Sings; performing artist: ABC) And sometimes I despair the world will never see (Superman's Song; performing artist: Crash Test Dummies) And I don't think I have ever seen a soul so in despair (Roll To Me; performing artist: Del Amitri) In My Deepest Despair (Will You Be There; performing artist: Michael Jackson) He sang as if he knew me in all my dark despair ("Killing Me Softly With His Song"; performing artist: Roberta Flack) | |
Clever | The best bridge between hope and despair is often a good night's sleep. (references; author: unknown) You will come across hope and despair in almost every situation. Only one of them wins each time. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Narcotics: Pit of Despair (1967) The Island of Despair (1926) A Lamb in Despair (1999) Despair (1978) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Help Prevent Despair. : Care. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
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Benjamin Disraeli | Despair is the conclusion of fools. |
E. M. Cioran | To exist is a habit I do not despair of acquiring. |
Edmund Burke | Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair. |
Jean Racine | My only hope lies in my despair. |
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe | In all things it is better to hope than to despair. |
Lord Alfred Tennyson | I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair. |
Matthew Arnold | Because thou must not dream, thou need not despair. |
Seneca | Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing. |
Thomas Fuller | Despair gives courage to a coward. |
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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. | 1963 | Let us not wallow in the valley of despair. (Delivered on the steps at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. on August 28, 1924) |
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Emma | Austen, Jane | We will not despair, however |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | This man would have died in despair. |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | The next day brought death and judgment, stirring his soul slowly from its listless despair. |
King Richard III | Shakespeare, William | By such despair I should accuse myself |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind |
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Health | If you suffer from headaches and none of the standard treatments help, do not despair. (references) | |
Bad trips, however, include terrifying thoughts and nightmarish feelings of anxiety and despair that include fears of insanity, death, or losing control. (references) | ||
Some LSD users experience severe, terrifying thoughts and feelings, fear of losing control, fear of insanity and death, and despair while using LSD. Some fatal accidents have occurred during states of LSD intoxication. (references) | ||
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | LORD, n. In American society, an English tourist above the state of a costermonger, as, lord 'Aberdasher, Lord Hartisan and so forth. The traveling Briton of lesser degree is addressed as "Sir," as, Sir 'Arry Donkiboi, or 'Amstead 'Eath. The word "Lord" is sometimes used, also, as a title of the Supreme Being; but this is thought to be rather flattery than true reverence. Miss Sallie Ann Splurge, of her own accord, Wedded a wandering English lord -- Wedded and took him to dwell with her "paw," A parent who throve by the practice of Draw. Lord Cadde I don't hesitate to declare Unworthy the father-in-legal care Of that elderly sport, notwithstanding the truth That Cadde had renounced all the follies of youth; For, sad to relate, he'd arrived at the stage Of existence that's marked by the vices of age. Among them, cupidity caused him to urge Repeated demands on the pocket of Splurge, Till, wrecked in his fortune, that gentleman saw Inadequate aid in the practice of Draw, And took, as a means of augmenting his pelf, To the business of being a lord himself. His neat-fitting garments he wilfully shed And sacked himself strangely in checks instead; Denuded his chin, but retained at each ear A whisker that looked like a blasted career. He painted his neck an incarnadine hue Each morning and varnished it all that he knew. The moony monocular set in his eye Appeared to be scanning the Sweet Bye-and-Bye. His head was enroofed with a billycock hat, And his low-necked shoes were aduncous and flat. In speech he eschewed his American ways, Denying his nose to the use of his A's And dulling their edge till the delicate sense Of a babe at their temper could take no offence. His H's -- 'twas most inexpressibly sweet, The patter they made as they fell at his feet! Re-outfitted thus, Mr. Splurge without fear Began as Lord Splurge his recouping career. Alas, the Divinity shaping his end Entertained other views and decided to send His lordship in horror, despair and dismay From the land of the nobleman's natural prey. For, smit with his Old World ways, Lady Cadde Fell -- suffering Caesar! -- in love with her dad! G.J. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Thomas Jefferson | 1801-1809 | Utterly, indeed, should I despair did not the presence of many whom I here see remind me that in the other high authorities provided by our Constitution I shall find resources of wisdom, of virtue, and of zeal on which to rely under all difficulties. |
John F. Kennedy | 1961-1963 | To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. |
Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | We can-and in time we will-change that despair into confidence, and change those frustrations into achievements. |
Richard Nixon | 1969-1974 | Our destiny offers, not the cup of despair, but the chalice of opportunity. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | But the call of the future is too strong, the challenge too great to get lost in the blind alleyways of dissolution, drugs, and despair. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | Let us overcome their despair and replace it with hope. |
George W. Bush | 2001-2005 | It's hard to go from frustration and despair to achievement and pride. |
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| "Despair" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 83.85% of the time. "Despair" is used about 1,188 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 83.85% | 996 | 7,382 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 12.28% | 146 | 26,107 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 3.62% | 43 | 52,181 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.17% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (common) | 0.08% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,188 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "despair": abandon oneself to despair ♦ be in despair ♦ be smb.'s despair ♦ blank despair ♦ cause despair ♦ cave of despair ♦ despair of ♦ drive smb. to despair ♦ fall a prey to despair ♦ fall into despair ♦ free from despair ♦ give over to despair ♦ in despair ♦ in the depths of despair ♦ nadir of despair ♦ out of despair ♦ yield despair ♦ yield to despair. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "despair": half-despair, near-despair, self-despair. | |
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| Language | Translations for "despair"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | dëshpëroj (cast down, discourage, dishearten, dispirit, embitter, get down, sadden), dëshpërohem (despond, lament), dëshpërim (desperation, despond, despondency, heartache, melancholy, pain), humb çdo shpresë. (various references) | |
Arabic | يأس (desperation), يئس (give up, give up the ghost, lose heart), مصدر يأس, قنوط (despondency), قنط (despond, dismay, droop, irritation). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | губя надежда, отчаяние (desperation), отчайвам се (despond, lose heart), безнадежност, покруса (affliction, grief, mortification), източник на отчаяние. (various references) | |
Chinese | 绝望 (Desperate, hopeless, hopelessness), 悵 (depressed, regretful, upset). (various references) | |
Czech | zoufat si (be desperate), zoufalství (desperation), beznadìje. (various references) | |
Danish | fortvivlelse, fortvivle. (various references) | |
Dutch | wanhopen. (various references) | |
Esperanto | malespero, malesperi. (various references) | |
Faeroese | vónloysi. (various references) | |
Farsi | یاس (Letdown), مایوس شدن , نومیدی . (various references) | |
Finnish | toivottomuus (hopelessness), epätoivo (desperation, despondency). (various references) | |
French | désespoir (desperation), désespérer. (various references) | |
Frisian | wanhope, wanhoopje. (various references) | |
German | verzweiflung (desperation, distress, exasperation), verzweifeln (to despair). (various references) | |
Greek | απόγνωση (desolation, desperation). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מפח פש (disappointment, disillusionment), יאוש (dejection, desperation, despondency), ליפול ברוחו (become depressed), לומר ואש (lose hope), לאבו" תקו" (lose hope), ל"תיאש (give up, give up hope, lose heart). (various references) | |
Hungarian | kétségbeesés (desperation, hopelessness, loss of hope, slough), szerencsétlensége vkinek, kétségbeesés oka, bánata vkinek, átka vkinek. (various references) | |
Indonesian | berputus asa. (various references) | |
Italian | disperazione (desolation, desperateness, desperation), disperare (be desperate, give up hope). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 自暴自棄 (desperation, self-abandonment), 自暴 (abandonment, desperation), 自棄 (abandonment, desperation), 絶望 (hopelessness), 絶望 (hopelessness), 失望 (disappointment), 失望 (disappointment), 失意 (adversity, disappointment). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ぜつぼう (hopelessness), しつぼう (disappointment), しつい (adversity, disappointment), やけ (abandonment, desperation), じぼうじき (desperation, self-abandonment), じぼう (abandonment, desperation), じき (abandonment, at once, being straight, chance, cheerfulness, china, correctness, desperation, direct, frankness, honesty, in person, just, magnetism, near by, next period, next term, night duty, opportunity, period, porcelain, season, seasons, self-recording, simplicity, soon, time, writing oneself). (various references) | |
Korean | 망 (Despairing). (various references) | |
Manx | meehreishteil, lhag-hreishteil, drogh-hreihys, dooghid (direness). (various references) | |
Norwegian | fortvilelse, fortvile. (various references) | |
Papiamen | desesperashon, desesperá (desperate). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | espairday.(various references) | |
Portuguese | desespero (desperation, hopelessness), desesperar (despond). (various references) | |
Romanian | deznãdejde (desperation, despondency), deznãdãjdui, desperare (agony, desperation, despondency, hopelessness), despera (despond), jale (dejection, gloom, grief, groans, mourning, sage, sorrow, wailing, woe). (various references) | |
Russian | отчаяние (desperation, despond, despondency). (various references) | |
Scottish | ao-dòchas (despondency), an-dòchas. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | očajavati, očajanje (desperation, hopelessness), beznadežnost (desperation, hopelessness). (various references) | |
Spanish | desesperación (desperation, hopelessness). (various references) | |
Swedish | misströsta (despond), förtvivlan (desperation, despondency), förtvivla. (various references) | |
Turkish | umutsuzluk (bleakness, desperation, despond, despondancy, dismay, hopelessness, self-despair, Slough), umutsuzluğa düşmek, umudunu kesmek, ümidini yitirme, çaresizlik (inevitability, lack of means). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | розпач (desperation), відчай (calamity, hopelessness), втрачати надію (despond), впадати в розпач, джерело страждань (torture). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự thất vọng (blue devils, chagrin, collapsable, dejection, despondency, let-down, suck-in), nỗi tuyệt vọng, nỗi thất vọng. (various references) | |
Welsh | anobeithio, anobaith. (various references) | |
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| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | desperabat, desperabilis, desperans, desperantes, desperare, desperata, desperatio, desperatus, desperaveris, desperavi, desperavimus, desperes, desperet, despero, diffidentes, diffidentia, diffido. (various references) |
| Old French | 900-1400 | desperer. (various references) |
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| Language | Date | Source | 2 Corinthians Chapter 4, Verse 8 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | En panti qlibomenoi all ou stenocwroumenoi aporoumenoi all ouk exaporoumenoi |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | In omnibus tribulationem patimur sed non angustiamur aporiamur sed non destituimur |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | In alle thingis we suffren tribulacioun, but we ben not angwischid, or annoyed; we ben maad pore, but `we lacken nothing; we suffren persecucioun, |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | We are troubled on every side yet are we not with out shyft. We are in povertie: but not vtterly without somwhat. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Troubles are round us on every side, but we are not shut in; things are hard for us, but we see a way out of them; |
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| Language | 2 Corinthians Chapter 4, Verse 8 |
| Cebuano | ¶ Kami ginasakit sa tanang paagi, apan wala manghiubos; nangalibog, apan wala kawad-i sa paglaum; |
| Croatian | U svemu pritisnuti, ali ne pritiješnjeni; dvoumeæi, ali ne zdvajajuæi; |
| Danish | vi, som trænges på alle Måder, men ikke stænges inde, ere tvivlrådige, men ikke fortvivlede, |
| Dutch | Als die in alles verdrukt worden, doch niet benauwd; twijfelmoedig, doch niet mismoedig; |
| Finnish | Me olemme kaikin tavoin ahdingossa, mutta emme umpikujassa, neuvottomat, mutta emme toivottomat, |
| French | Nous sommes pressés de toute manière, mais non réduits l`extrémité; dans la détresse, mais non dans le désespoir; |
| German | Wir haben allenthalben Trübsal, aber wir ängsten uns nicht; uns ist bange, aber wir verzagen nicht; |
| Haitian Creole | ¶ Mwen jwenn tout kalite fikilte; men, mwen pa janm kwense nèt. Mwen konn rive nan sitiyasyon mwen pa konn ni sa pou m' fè, ni sa pou m' di. Men, mwen pa janm pèdi espwa. |
| Hungarian | Mindenütt nyomorgattatunk, de meg nem szoríttatunk; kétségeskedünk, de nem esünk kétségbe; |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Kami diserang dari segala pihak, namun kami tidak terjepit. Kami kebingungan, tetapi tidak sampai putus asa. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Maka kami disesakkan di dalam segala sesuatu, tetapi tiada terapit; kami bimbang hati, tetapi tiada putus harap; |
| Italian | Siamo infatti tribolati da ogni parte, ma non schiacciati; siamo sconvolti, ma non disperati; |
| Latvian | No visurienes mçs cieðam apspieðanu, bet neesam nomâkti; esam trûkumâ, bet neesam izmisuði. |
| Maori | ¶ E akina ana matou i nga taha katoa, heoi kahore e pau te whakaaro; e raruraru ana, heoi kahore e ngakaukore; |
| Norwegian | idet vi alltid er i trengsel, men ikke kuet, tvilende, men ikke mistvilende, |
| Portuguese | Em tudo somos atribulados, mas não angustiados; perplexos, mas não desesperados; |
| Rumanian | Skntem kncolyiyi kn toate chipurile, dar nu la strkmtoare; kn grea cumpqnq, dar nu desnqdqjduiyi; |
| Russian | нЩ ПФПЧУА"Х ТЙФЕУОСЕНЩ, ОП ОЕ УФЕУОЕОЩ; НЩ Ч ПФЮБСООЩИ П'УФПСФЕМШУФЧБИ, ОП ОЕ ПФЮБЙЧБЕНУС; |
| Shuar | ¶ Tuma asamtai ii itiurchatri árentmaku árinin tuke jiinkimniaitji. "Itiurkatjik" taji, Túrasha Yus Yáinmaji. |
| Spanish | Estamos atribulados en todo, pero no angustiados; perplejos, pero no desesperados; |
| Swahili | Daima twapata taabu, lakini hatugandamizwi; twapata mashaka, lakini hatukati tamaa; |
| Swedish | Vi äro på allt sätt i trångmål, dock icke utan utväg; vi äro rådvilla, dock icke rådlösa; |
| Uma | ¶ Ngki'ii ngka'ana narumpa' -kai kaparia, aga uma-kai te'upi'. Pontu-na tuhu-mi nono-kai, aga uma mere' nono-kai. |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "despair": despaired, despairer, despairers, despairing, despairingly, despairs. (additional references) | |
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"Despair" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Dashamir, deapair, Deapsie, depair, depare, depia, depir, Desaix, desapear, Desipur, despa, despain, despare, desper, despire, D'essai, desuper, Desvaux, disdair, dispar, Dusapin, Esgair, espoir. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "despair" (pronounced di'spe"r) |
| 4 | -s p e" r | spare. |
| 3 | -p e" r | compare, disrepair, impair, pair, pare, pear, prepare, repair. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: aspired, diapers, praised. | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-i-p-r-s" | |
-1 letter: aiders, aspire, deairs, diaper, drapes, irades, padres, paired, pardie, paries, parsed, praise, prides, prised, raised, rapids, rasped, redias, redips, repaid, resaid, spader, spared, sparid, spider, spirea, spired, spread. | |
-2 letters: aider, aides, aired, apers, apres, arise, aside, asper, dares, deair, dears, drape, dries, drips, ideas, irade, padis, padre, padri, pairs, paise, pardi, pards. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-i-p-r-s" | |
+1 letter: airspeed, apprised, despairs, diaspore, dispread, paradise, parodies, parslied, peracids, presidia, raphides, rapidest, spiraled, sprained, traipsed, upraised. | |
+2 letters: airspeeds, aphorised, appraised, aspirated, bediapers, deprivals, despaired, despairer, diaspores, didappers, dipterans, disappear, disparage, disparate, disparted, dispersal, dispraise, dispreads, disrepair, draperies, eupatrids, firedamps, kidnapers, misparsed, misparted, paradises, parridges, pedaliers, pedlaries, picadores, polarised, practised, praesidia, preadmits, preaudits, presidial, rapidness, redisplay, respading, sandpiper, spermatid, spikenard, spiralled, spreading, therapsid, vaporised. | |
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