Usually means: Feeling or showing profound hopelessness.
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  1. despondently: Merriam-Webster
  2. despondently: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. despondently: Collins English Dictionary
  4. despondently: Vocabulary.com
  5. despondently: Wordnik
  6. despondently: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. despondently: Wiktionary
  8. despondently: Dictionary.com
  9. despondently: Rhymezone
  10. despondently: FreeDictionary.org
  11. despondently: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. despondently: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ adverb:  In a despondent manner.

Similar:
despairingly, despondingly, despairfully, dejectedly, depressedly, desolately, depressively, dispiritedly, depressingly, deploringly, more...

Opposite:
optimistically, hopefully, cheerfully, positively

Types:
disheartened, dismayed, discouraged, downcast, gloomy, hopeless, pessimistic, sad, more...

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Similar:
despairingly, despondingly, despairfully, dejectedly, depressedly, desolately, depressively, dispiritedly, depressingly, deploringly, more...

Opposite:
optimistically, hopefully, cheerfully, positively

Types:
disheartened, dismayed, discouraged, downcast, gloomy, hopeless, pessimistic, sad, more...



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