different between heartache vs despair

English

Alternative forms

• heart-ache

Etymology

From Middle English heorteece, heorte-ece, from Old English heorte?e, equivalent to heart +? ache.

Pronunciation

Noun

heartache (countable and uncountable, plural heartaches)

1. Very sincere and difficult emotional problems or stress

Pronunciation

Translations

English

Etymology

From Middle English dispeir, from Anglo-Norman despeir and Old French desperer (from Latin despero, desperare), or desesperer, from des- (“dis-”) + esperer (“hope”). See also desperate

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /d??sp??(?)/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /d??sp???/
• Hyphenation: des?pair

Verb

despair (third-person singular simple present despairs, present participle despairing, simple past and past participle despaired)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To give up as beyond hope or expectation; to despair of.
2. (transitive, obsolete) To cause to despair.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Sir W. Williams to this entry?)

3. (intransitive, often with “of”) To be hopeless; to have no hope; to give up all hope or expectation.

Translations

Noun

despair (countable and uncountable, plural despairs)

1. Loss of hope; utter hopelessness; complete despondency.

   He turned around in despair, aware that he was not going to survive

2. That which causes despair.
3. That which is despaired of. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Synonyms

• desperation
• despondency
• hopelessness

Antonyms

• hope

Translations

Anagrams

• Piedras, aperids, aspired, diapers, praised, pre-AIDS