Despair vs Null - What's the difference?
despair | null |
(obsolete) To give up as beyond hope or expectation; to despair of.
* Milton
(obsolete) To cause to despair.
To be hopeless; to have no hope; to give up all hope or expectation.
* Bible, 2 Corinthians i. 8
Loss of hope; utter hopelessness; complete despondency.
That which is despaired of.
A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
Something that has no force or meaning.
(computing) the ASCII or Unicode character (), represented by a zero value, that indicates no character and is sometimes used as a string terminator.
(computing) the attribute of an entity that has no valid value.
One of the beads in nulled work.
(statistics) null hypothesis
Having no validity, "null and void"
insignificant
* 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
absent or non-existent
(mathematics) of the null set
(mathematics) of or comprising a value of precisely zero
(genetics, of a mutation) causing a complete loss of gene function, amorphic.
As nouns the difference between despair and null
is that despair is loss of hope; utter hopelessness; complete despondency while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb despair
is (obsolete) to give up as beyond hope or expectation; to despair of.despair
English
Verb
(en verb)- I would not despair the greatest design that could be attempted.
- We despaired even of life.
Noun
- He turned around in despair , aware that he was not going to survive
Synonyms
* desperation * despondency * hopelessnessAnagrams
* aspired * diapers * praisednull
English
Noun
(en noun)- (Francis Bacon)
- Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
Adjective
(en adjective)- In proportion as we descend the social scale our snobbishness fastens on to mere nothings which are perhaps no more null than the distinctions observed by the aristocracy, but, being more obscure, more peculiar to the individual, take us more by surprise.