despair meaning in Sanskrit
कातर kātara
UK/dɪˈspɛə(ɹ)//dɪˈspɛɚ/
despair in Sanskrit: कातर (kātara). In English, despair means to give up as beyond hope or expectation; to despair of.
Sanskrit words for despair
- despair
- कातर kātara
English meaning of despair
- verb To give up as beyond hope or expectation; to despair of.
- verb To cause to despair.
- verb To be hopeless; to have no hope; to give up all hope or expectation.
- noun Loss of hope; utter hopelessness; complete despondency.
despair in a sentence
- He turned around in despair, aware that he was not going to survive.
- My daughter's behavior drives me to despair.
Synonyms of despair
despair in other languages
Questions about despair in Sanskrit
- What is the meaning of despair in Sanskrit?
- Despair in Sanskrit is कातर (kātara).
- despair इत्यस्य संस्कृते कः अर्थः?
- Despair: कातर (kātara).
- What does despair mean in English?
- Despair means to give up as beyond hope or expectation; to despair of.
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Sanskrit words from Wiktionary's Sanskrit entries whose English meaning is “despair”: कातर. English meanings adapted from Wiktionary: despair (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the Sanskrit words and English meanings and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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