desperation, n. 1. recklessness, rashness, foolhardiness, impetuosity, imprudence, boldness; frenzy, passion, rage, madness, fury.
2. urgency, pressure, compulsion; acuteness, criticalness, crucialness; seriousness, gravity, graveness, importance.
3. hopelessness, despair, despondency, slough of despond, depression; dejection, discouragement, dis-heartenment; defeatism, pessimism; disconsolateness, unconsolability, gloom, melancholy, misery, wretchedness, distress.
4. irredeemableness, irredeemability, irrecoverableness, irrevocability, irrevocableness, incurability, incurableness, irremediableness, irreparability, irreparableness, irretrievability, irretrievableness.
despicable, adj. 1. contemptible, worthy of scorn, worthy of disdain, reptilian, stinking, Inf. lousy, scurvy; abhorrent, abominable, execrable, loathsome, hateful, odious, detestable, heinous; evil, ugly.
2. ignominious, sordid, vile, Inf. scummy, ignoble, beneath contempt, base, base-spirited, mean, mean-spirited, miserable, villainous, wretched, sorry, Archaic. caitiff; paltry, low, abject, cheap, shabby, groveling, servile, beggarly, worthless, nameless, Inf. no-account; disgusting, rank, distasteful, disreputable, shameful, disgraceful, unadmirable.
despise, v. 1. scorn, disdain, contemn, spurn, misprize; show contempt for, scout, flout, consider beneath oneself, look down on or upon, look down the nose at, have a low opinion of; deride, scoff at, sneer at, jeer at, mock, ridicule, laugh at; slight, snub, shun. 2. feel disgust toward, feel distaste for; dislike, feel aversion toward, hate, detest, loathe, abominate, execrate, abhor,
despite, prep. 1. notwithstanding, regardless of, in spite of, in defiance of, in contempt of, in the face of, in the teeth of, against.
-n. 2. insult, antagonism, abuse, malignity; contempt, defiance, contumacy, insolence,
despoil, v. 1. plunder, pillage, rob, spoliate, Archaic. spoil, Chiefly Scot. reive; ravage, harry, rape, maraud, ravish, depredate; raid, forage, ransack, sack, loot, gut, fleece, rifle; desecrate, defile, outrage, violate.
2. devastate, lay waste, desolate, wreck havoc upon, wreck, destroy, damage, ruin, vandalize.
3. strip, dispossess, deprive, denude, divest, bereave, Law. disseize, wring from, wrest from, wrench from, confiscate, seize.
4. commandeer, make off with, carry off, snatch; steal, thieve, filch, Sl. lift; pirate, rustle, poach.
despoliation, n. 1. pillage, plunder, plundering, plunderage, rapine, depredation, spoliation, despoilment, Obs. direption, raven or ravin; ravaging, pillaging, harrying, marauding, sacking, Rare, sackage; raid, foray, razzia, inroad; foraging, looting, ravishment, seizure, grab, rape.
2. devastation, ravage, waste, desolation, destruction, ruin, havoc, damage, wreckage; burning, razing, leveling, demolishing; desecration, defilement, outrage, violation, vandalism; injury, harm, hurt, impairment, loss, scathe; collapse, breakdown, downfall.