despondent
16
7.7
- adjective
- /dɪˈspɒndənt/
- As a result, we often become despondent and forget that we can engage in this global linkup.
- feel despondent
- become despondent
- returned despondent
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Watch on YouTubeIn retrospect, it feels despondent and destitute and sad and alone.
- In retrospect, it feels despondent and destitute and sad and alone.
- I was so despondent. I lost
- And when things are not going their way, they are often despondent or rageful.
- But you can be as despondent as you want.
- And by the end I was feeling a little shaken and, and despondent, to say the least.
- That song came out on the day that Ruth Bader Ginsburg died, and I was despondent.
- You, you get undergrads and they learn these things and they can get kind of despondent and kind of depressed for a while.
- So if you've got to go on the journey, which is to talk to people, you'll get despondent.
- Or it's that messy middle, that bit in the middle that where you're too far in to go back, you're not far enough to see the end where people get despondent, people give up.
- Why didn't he just become despondent and not do anything anymore because he needed to put these ideas down?
Examples
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We say goodbye to him, wish him well, try to act a bit despondent over this entire sad little episode.
Fiction book (1995) -
Well, he didn't come home last night, and... he's been very despondent since his brother's death.
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I just feel despondent about all of this.
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A woman lost her husband earlier this year, despondent over the loss, and so on.
Fiction book (1994) -
I'm a little despondent about that.
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And Stuart was obviously drunk and despondent, and perhaps had been so for days.
Fiction book (1991) -
There had been some speculation that, despondent over her lover's death, she had committed suicide.
Fiction book (1998) -
On the other side of the street, Domingo passed by, head lowered, with a despondent air.
Fiction book (1996) -
The world is still the same, he sighs, not knowing if he feels relieved or despondent.
Fiction book (2000) -
After losing her job, she felt increasingly despondent about her future.
Synonyms
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1.0
Feeling unhappy or upset because of something
445
3.5
Feeling very sad and without hope
224
6.7
Feeling sad or unhappy
95
1.0
Feeling sad or without energy
73
7.5
Feeling sad or disappointed about something
67
3.4
Feeling less confident and hopeful because of problems
32
5.9
Feeling or showing deep sadness
29
2.5
Feeling sad and without much hope
22
4.1
Looking or feeling sad and quiet
15
5.2
Feeling sad and lacking confidence to keep trying
14
3.6
Feeling very sad because of loss or disappointment
12
6.7
Feeling very unhappy and alone after a loss
12
4.2
Feeling less hopeful and confident after a disappointment
10
4.5
Feeling very sad and not hopeful
9
4.6
Feeling very hopeless and sad
9
7.7
Showing or feeling complete defeat and no hope
8
4.6
Feeling less confident and hopeful after a disappointment
7
5.4
Feeling sad and without hope
7
6.3
Feeling very sad because of loss or disappointment
5
7.5
Sad and disappointed because what you hoped for did not happen
4
4.4
Feeling sad and not very hopeful
3
4.7
Feeling sad and without much hope
3
8.2
Very sad and not able to be comforted
2
4.1
Feeling sad and without much hope
1
5.4
Feeling very sad and weighed down inside
1
3.9
Feeling sad and without energy
Antonyms
How Discouraged
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Despondent comes from Latin parts de- meaning 'away' and spondere meaning 'to promise'. You can see the same root in sponsor, someone who promises help. So, despondent means feeling you have 'given up a promise' or lost hope, which is why it means being very discouraged.