Usually means: Lose hope, become disheartened deeply.
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General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. despond: Merriam-Webster
  2. despond: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. despond: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. despond: Collins English Dictionary
  5. despond: Vocabulary.com
  6. Despond, despond: Wordnik
  7. despond: Wiktionary
  8. despond: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. despond: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. despond: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Despond, despond: Dictionary.com
  12. Despond: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. despond: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. despond: Rhymezone
  15. Despond: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. despond: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. despond: FreeDictionary.org
  18. despond: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. despond: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Despond: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (despond)

▸ verb:  (intransitive) To give up the will, courage, or spirit; to become dejected, lose heart.
▸ noun:  (archaic) Despondency.

Similar:
faint, dispirit, disspirit, discourage, despair, lose heart, dishearten, despirit, downcast, disanimate, more...

Opposite:
hopeful, optimistic, encouraged, buoyant

Types:
despair, despondency, more...

Phrases:
slough of despond, sloughs of despond, more...

Adjectives:
deep, economic, political, old, financial, many, own, mental, military, great, black

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Similar:
faint, dispirit, disspirit, discourage, despair, lose heart, dishearten, despirit, downcast, disanimate, more...

Opposite:
hopeful, optimistic, encouraged, buoyant

Types:
despair, despondency, more...

Phrases:
slough of despond, sloughs of despond, more...

Adjectives:
deep, economic, political, old, financial, many, own, mental, military, great, black

Colors:
    gray,     charcoal,     pewter,     taupe,     mauve, more...



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