DISAPPOINTED  絕望

SAD BECAUSE something HOPED for in the PAST was NOT OBTAINED.
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Hypernym
  • SADDISTRESS ARISING from BAD THOUGHTS NOW IN ONE'S MIND which CAUSE one to LACK DELIGHT:joy.NB: The words I have chosen to include in this group pose special problems of contrastive analysis. There is something irretrievably diffuse about their usage, in many cases, and in many others the number of relevant examples in the early literature is so small that it is impossible to get anything like a firm grip on their precise semantics. Under these circumstances I have tried to compensate for lack of neat analysis with more quotation, especially from Chǔcí. Throughout this section I quote my teacher David Hawkes' translations, mindful of the fact that many of these were written in the third year of his study of Chinese...
    • DISTRESSFEELING that one's SELF:own SITUATION IS INTENSELY BAD.
      • FEELINGNATURAL REACTION IN one's MIND.
        • REACTCHANGE one's THINKING OR ACTING BECAUSE one is PERCEIVING something....
Modern Chinese Criteria
絕望

絕意　（金庸）

失望

廢然

大失所望

掃興

敗興

殺風景

興致索然

自暴自棄

  • Anthologia sive Florilegium rerum et materiarum selectarum ( LANGIUS 1631) p.

    DESPERATIO

Words

失望  shī wàng OC: lʰiɡ maŋs MC: ɕit mi̯ɐŋ 6 Attributions
    Syntactic words
  • VPilose hope
  • VPt+prep+Nbe disappointed in somebodyTWH
絕望  jué wàng OC: dzod maŋs MC: dziɛt mi̯ɐŋ 5 Attributions
    Syntactic words
  • VPichangebecome disappointed; lose all hope
  • VPt+prep+Nlose all hope with respect to
喪氣  sàng qì MC: sangH khj+jH OC: smaaŋs khɯdsCH 1 Attribution
    Syntactic words
  • VPibe disheartenedCH
絕意  jué yì OC: dzod qɯɡs MC: dziɛt ʔɨ 0 Attributions
    Syntactic words
  • VPilose hope DC: 漢 王充 《論衡‧刺孟》："在 魯 則歸之於天，絕意無冀，在 齊 則歸之於王，庶幾有望。"
  Click here to add pinyin MC:  OC: CH 0 Attributions
    Syntactic words
  • VPibe disheartenedCH

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