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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adjective despondent has 1 sense

• despondent(s = adj.all) heartsick - without or almost without hope; "despondent about his failure"; "too heartsick to fight back"
Derived forms verb despond₁, noun despondence₁, noun despondency₁

OXFORD DICTIONARY

THESAURUS

despondent

affording no hope, apathetic, bleak, blue, bowed-down, cast down, cheerless, comfortless, dashed, dejected, depressed, despairing, desperate, desponding, disconsolate, discouraged, disheartened, dismal, dispirited, down, downcast, downhearted, drooping, droopy, feeling low, forlorn, grieving, grim, heartless, hopeless, hypochondriac, hypochondriacal, in despair, in low spirits, in the depths, in the doldrums, in the dumps, languishing, low, low-spirited, melancholy, miserable, morose, mourning, pessimistic, pining, sad, sorrowful, spiritless, subdued, suicidal, unhappy, unhopeful, weary of life, without hope, woebegone, world-weary

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