"Total despair" means feeling an overwhelming sense of hopelessness, sadness, and complete loss of faith or belief that things will ever improve or get better.
Sentences with «total despair»
To go from total despair and feeling like a failure to where we are now is a miracle! (2speakdog.com)
The work would convey an image of total despair if not for its title. (religion-online.org)
Remember way back to January 2016, before the world had spun into total despair? (mommyish.com)