自じ暴ぼう

noun

despair; desperation; abandonment

Primarily used in the compound 自暴自棄 (じぼうじき), meaning a state of reckless despair or giving up on oneself. Rarely used alone in modern Japanese.

• 彼かれは自じ暴ぼう自じ棄きになって仕し事ごとを辞やめてしまった。

  He fell into reckless despair and quit his job.

• 自じ暴ぼう自じ棄きに陥おちいると、冷れい静せいな判はん断だんができなくなる。

  When you fall into desperation, you lose the ability to make calm judgments.