Despondent

Quick meaning: Despondent is an adjective meaning In low spirits from loss of hope or courage.

Meaning

In low spirits from loss of hope or courage.

Example Sentences

“Last year, I was despondent that it was so hard to dislodge the iron grip of Google,” said Sridhar Ramaswamy, who previously oversaw advertising for Google, including Search ads, and now runs Neeva. “But technological moments like this create an opportunity for more competition.”

Thanks to that penny he had just spent so recklessly [on a newspaper] he would pass a happy hour, taken, for once, out of his anxious, despondent, miserable self. It irritated him shrewdly to know that these moments of respite from carking care would not be shared with his poor wife, with careworn, troubled Ellen.

Synonyms for despondent

Depending on context, synonyms include crestfallen, despairing, disconsolate, disheartened, dejected, downcast.

Antonyms for despondent

Common opposites include cheerful.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include hopeless, heartsick, discouraged, downcast, depressive, depressed.

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