despondency
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8.3
- noun
- /dɪˈspɒndənsi/
:
desesperanza
- She felt a deep sense of despondency after losing her job and was unsure of her future.
It's, it's a, it's a, it's a cure for despondency.
- It's, it's a, it's a, it's a cure for despondency.
- For those of you out there that are dealing with fear and dealing with despondency and dealing with struggle, my only message to you are the three important words.
- So that as the liquor sales go up along with the despondency, Clooney wins either way.
- So anger, despondency, frustration, that's what your chimp brain is choosing to use.
- So breathing in certain patterns, certain ways can help us to come out of the despondency we feel with our own moods really good.
Examples
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I can't help but imagine the despondency, the fear, the disappointment in his heart.
Blog text (31) -
No telling what he might do in a fit of despondency.
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And so our day comes to an end in despondency at half past five in the morning.
Fiction book (1997) -
I could think of no other situation when I had heard someone speak his own name with such despondency.
Fiction book (2002) -
His recent despondency, not to say despair, was gone in a moment.
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There is a very great grief and despondency among all of us in our barrack.
Academic text (2008) -
During sessions that sometimes lasted for hours, she poured out her feelings of despondency about a marriage gone sour.
Academic text (1990) -
By all accounts, he was suffering from exhaustion, chronic back pain, eye strain, and despondency.
Academic text (2010) -
Dr. Bettmann knows moments of despondency, his colleagues told us, usually when business has slacked off.
Fiction book (1999) -
There's a certain despondency in its ancient sad call, a kind of world-weary wisdom.
Fiction book (1994)
Synonyms
330
3.7
A deep feeling of sadness and loss of interest in life
229
1.0
A feeling of being unhappy
210
3.5
A complete loss of hope
3
7.6
A feeling of deep sadness and emptiness after being left alone
3
3.6
A feeling of lost confidence that makes you want to stop trying
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6.3
A feeling of sadness and low energy that makes you feel down
1
8.8
A feeling of deep sadness and no hope
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9.9
A deep sadness that lasts a long time and is hard to escape
1
3.5
A feeling of being a little sad or down
1
3.4
A feeling of sadness and little hope felt by people or in a place
1
8.4
A gloomy, unfriendly mood that makes a person quiet and hard to approach
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6.5
A deep, quiet feeling or look of sadness
A deep sadness that nothing can comfort
A feeling of deep sadness that nothing can comfort
A feeling of being discouraged and without much hope
A feeling of losing hope and confidence
A deep, painful sadness from missing someone or something
A feeling of being sad and having little hope
A feeling of sadness and low energy
A feeling of sadness and little interest in things
A time when someone feels sad and without energy
A feeling of sadness and no hope
A quiet feeling of sadness and low spirits
A feeling of being sad or low
A feeling of deep sadness and loss
A deep feeling of sadness about a loss
Antonyms
How Discouraged
Surface Forms
Morphology
despondency = despondent (transparent) = despond + ency
Formed by adding the noun-forming suffix '-ency' to the adjective 'despondent', yielding the state of being despondent; meaning is directly predictable.
Etymology
Despondency comes from Latin parts de- meaning 'down' and spondere meaning 'to promise', and you can see the same root in sponsor, a person who promises support. A helpful image is someone who lets go of a promise and loses heart, so despondency means feeling very low and without hope.