Word: despaired
Part of speech: Verb
Syllables: de
spaired
Definition: Simple past tense and past participle of despair; abandon hope; give up hope; lose heart
Morphemes:
Affix: despair
Language: en
PoS: Verb
Meaning: To be hopeless; to have no hope; to give up all hope or expectation.
Etymology Compounds: Affix: des-
Language: fro
Decoded: des-
Meaning: dis-
Affix: esperer
Language: fro
Decoded: esperer
Meaning: hope
Affix: -ed
Language: en
PoS: Suffix
Meaning: Used to form past tenses of (regular) verbs. In linguistics, it is used for the base form of any past form. See -t for a variant.