Dictionary

despondent en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /dɪˈspɒndənt/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From Latin dēspondēns, from the verb despondere (“to give up, to abandon”).

Meanings

1. In low spirits from loss of hope or courage.
   • “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.” 2022 December 21, Nico Grant, Cade Metz, quoting Sridhar Ramaswamy, “A New Chat Bot Is a ‘Code Red’ for Google’s Search Business”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
   • 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. 1913, Mrs. [Marie] Belloc Lowndes, chapter I, in The Lodger, London: Methuen, →OCLC; republished in Novels of Mystery: The Lodger; The Story of Ivy; What Really Happened, New York, N.Y.: Longmans, Green and Co., […], [1933], →OCLC, page 0056:

Forms

Antonyms

hopeful · cheerful

Deriveds

despondently · undespondent · despondency

Synonyms

sorrowsome · doleful · crestfallen · tristful · threnetic · disheartened · triste · plaintive · despondent · solemn · dull · heartsick · woeful · melancholy · grieving · Plutonic · unconsolable · ruthful · dismal · saturnine · sorrow-ridden · downcast · blitheless · wretched · uncheerful · downhearted · disheartened · lugubrious · disconsolate · chopfallen · lamentful · elegiac · low-spirited · heartsore · wistful · glum · threnetical · bummed out · down in the mouth · cheerless · sad · sullen · unlively · sad · dolesome · damp · querulous · down in the dumps · woe · blue · chapfallen · joyless · sorrowful · atrabilious · lachrymose · spiritless · unhappy · morose · forlorn · disgruntled · moody · crestfallen · downsome · lumpish · heartsick · miserable · miserable · melancholic · elegious · disconsolate · heavy-hearted · dispirited · depressed · mournful · passionate · infelicitous · woebegone · atrabiliary · inconsolable · saddened · gloomy · sombre · gloomy · hopeless · jawfallen · downcast · dejected · low · Plutonian · down · despairing · dejected · cut up · shattered · mopey · uncheery · grief-stricken

Translations (96)

uk засмучений (in low spirits from loss of hope or courage) · ru мра́чный (in low spirits from loss of hope or courage) · ru печа́льный (in low spirits from loss of hope or courage) · pt desanimado (in low spirits from loss of hope or courage) · ru гру́стный (in low spirits from loss of hope or courage) · cs malomyslný (in low spirits from loss of hope or courage) · oc desencorat (in low spirits from loss of hope or courage) · fi toivoton (in low spirits from loss of hope or courage) · ru пода́вленный (in low spirits from loss of hope or courage) · es descorazonado (in low spirits from loss of hope or courage) · nb knuget (in low spirits from loss of hope or courage) · he מיואש (in low spirits from loss of hope or courage) · ru уны́лый (in low spirits from loss of hope or courage) · pdt mootlooss (in low spirits from loss of hope or courage) · nl wanhopig (in low spirits from loss of hope or courage) · cy pendrist (in low spirits from loss of hope or courage) · ru угнетённый (in low spirits from loss of hope or courage) · cs zoufalý (in low spirits from loss of hope or courage) · fi epätoivoinen (in low spirits from loss of hope or courage) · fr découragé (in low spirits from loss of hope or courage) · nl mismoedig (in low spirits from loss of hope or courage) · fo mótfallin (in low spirits from loss of hope or courage) · cmn 灰心 (in low spirits from loss of hope or courage) · mi mārohirohi (in low spirits from loss of hope or courage) · ru удручённый (in low spirits from loss of hope or courage) · sa खिन्न (in low spirits from loss of hope or courage) · nb nedtrykt (in low spirits from loss of hope or courage) · cy digalon (in low spirits from loss of hope or courage) · fr abattu (in low spirits from loss of hope or courage) · ca desesperançat (in low spirits from loss of hope or courage) · de mutlos (in low spirits from loss of hope or courage) · ja 悲しい (in low spirits from loss of hope or courage) · is krumpinn (in low spirits from loss of hope or courage) · bg паднал духом (in low spirits from loss of hope or courage) · nn motlaus (in low spirits from loss of hope or courage) · nb motløs (in low spirits from loss of hope or courage) · de deprimiert (in low spirits from loss of hope or courage) · de traurig (in low spirits from loss of hope or courage) · bg загубил надежда (in low spirits from loss of hope or courage) · ca abatut (in low spirits from loss of hope or courage) · ja 失意の (in low spirits from loss of hope or courage) · mi hākerekere (in low spirits from loss of hope or courage) · ru па́вший ду́хом (in low spirits from loss of hope or courage) · da forknyt (in low spirits from loss of hope or courage) · de entmutigt (in low spirits from loss of hope or courage) · cmn 沮喪 /沮丧 (in low spirits from loss of hope or courage) · el άθυμος (in low spirits from loss of hope or courage) · es abatido (in low spirits from loss of hope or courage) · fr triste (in low spirits from loss of hope or courage) · ja 消然 (in low spirits from loss of hope or courage) · grc ἄθυμος (in low spirits from loss of hope or courage) · ar بَائِس (in low spirits from loss of hope or courage) · it abbattuto (in low spirits from loss of hope or courage) · sv missmodig (in low spirits from loss of hope or courage) · ca desanimat (in low spirits from loss of hope or courage) · cy penisel (in low spirits from loss of hope or courage) · cy pendrwm (in low spirits from loss of hope or courage) · sv modfälld (in low spirits from loss of hope or courage) · cmn 氣餒 /气馁 (in low spirits from loss of hope or courage) · pt desencorajado (in low spirits from loss of hope or courage) · ja 落胆した (in low spirits from loss of hope or courage) · sv nedslagen (in low spirits from loss of hope or courage) · uk зневірений (in low spirits from loss of hope or courage) · hu lehangolt (in low spirits from loss of hope or courage) · vi chán nản (in low spirits from loss of hope or courage) · uk пригнічений (in low spirits from loss of hope or courage) · pt abatido (in low spirits from loss of hope or courage) · mi tāmate (in low spirits from loss of hope or courage) · ar قَانِط (in low spirits from loss of hope or courage) · nb forknytt (in low spirits from loss of hope or courage) · cs sklíčený (in low spirits from loss of hope or courage) · sv nedstämd (in low spirits from loss of hope or courage) · nl terneergeslagen (in low spirits from loss of hope or courage) · grc δύσθυμος (in low spirits from loss of hope or courage) · da knuget (in low spirits from loss of hope or courage) · bg унил (in low spirits from loss of hope or courage) · cmn 抑鬱 /抑郁 (in low spirits from loss of hope or courage) · uk занепалий духом (in low spirits from loss of hope or courage) · oc abatut (in low spirits from loss of hope or courage) · fr déprimé (in low spirits from loss of hope or courage) · mi tapou (in low spirits from loss of hope or courage) · ca descoratjat (in low spirits from loss of hope or courage) · cmn 懊喪 /懊丧 (in low spirits from loss of hope or courage) · nl moedeloos (in low spirits from loss of hope or courage) · ar حَزِين (in low spirits from loss of hope or courage) · nl hopeloos (in low spirits from loss of hope or courage) · mi parakore (in low spirits from loss of hope or courage) · nn nedtrykt (in low spirits from loss of hope or courage) · ar أَسْوَان (in low spirits from loss of hope or courage) · de niedergeschlagen (in low spirits from loss of hope or courage) · th ท้อ (in low spirits from loss of hope or courage) · mi ngākau pōuri (in low spirits from loss of hope or courage) · th ท้อแท้ (in low spirits from loss of hope or courage) · pt desacorçoado (in low spirits from loss of hope or courage) · cmn 哀傷 /哀伤 (in low spirits from loss of hope or courage) · it scoraggiato (in low spirits from loss of hope or courage)