despondent
adjective
Origin of despondent
Synonyms for despondent
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Related Words for despondent
morose, forlorn, dejected, sad, glum, discouraged, disheartened, blue, despairing, disconsolate, dispirited, doleful, down, downcast, downhearted, gloomy, hopeless, low, low-spirited, melancholyExamples from the Web for despondent
Contemporary Examples of despondent
It is all too easy to be despondent in the face of what seems like the endless capacity of evil to reinvent itself.
Many were despondent or even suicidal when they first arrived.
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Despondent, she choked back sobs when she saw other women with babies.
Despondent at first, Tanny gradually reached a level of acceptance.
Rachel at one point moseys the streets of Manhattan, despondent and introspective, while singing the Beatles ballad “Yesterday.”
Historical Examples of despondent
"It won't work; you never could do it," objected Dixon, with despondent conviction.
ThoroughbredsW. A. Fraser
I cannot honestly say now whether I ever shared this despondent view or not.
In the ValleyHarold Frederic
Mournful, despondent, half broken-hearted, she resumed her journey.
Alice, or The Mysteries, CompleteEdward Bulwer-Lytton
With a heavy sigh and a despondent air, Arthur Clennam slowly rose.
Little DorritCharles Dickens
They fell into a despondent reverie, with their chins in their bosoms.
The Gentleman From IndianaBooth Tarkington