Desponding
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Desponding is a verb meaning present participle and gerund of despond.
Meaning
present participle and gerund of despond.
More Meanings
- That causes or communicates despondency; disheartening or despondent.
- A feeling or expression of despondency.
Example Sentences
"Somebody has hooked off with your pie," he blurted in a desponding tone.
These are the despondings of men without money; but let the shining ore chink in the pocket, and folly turns to wisdom.
[T]he doubts, apprehensions, and desponding suspense which had accompanied her setting out, were now all removed, and certainty, ease, the expectation of happiness, and the cessation of all perplexity, had taken their place.
Word Forms
- despondings
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include disheartening, damp, downcast, depressed, depressive, low-hearted.
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