Usually means: Feeling profound hopelessness and dejection.
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General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. despondent: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. despondent: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. despondent: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. despondent: Collins English Dictionary
  5. despondent: Vocabulary.com
  6. Despondent, despondent: Wordnik
  7. despondent: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. despondent: Wiktionary
  9. despondent: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. despondent: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. despondent: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Despondent, despondent: Dictionary.com
  13. despondent: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Despondent: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. despondent: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. despondent: Rhymezone
  17. despondent: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. despondent: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. despondent: Free Dictionary
  20. despondent: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. despondent: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. despondent: Legal dictionary

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  1. despondent: Urban Dictionary

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▸ adjective:  In low spirits from loss of hope or courage.

Similar:
heartsick, hopeless, downhearted, discouraged, down-hearted, despirited, lowhearted, dark-hearted, despairing, down in the dumps, more...

Opposite:
elated, ecstatic, overjoyed

Types:
happy, sad, depressed, hopeless, hopeful, despairing, more...

Phrases:
despondent utterance, opposite of despondent, more...

Adjectives:
little, long, first, most, male, only, sad, national, entire, right, consumptive

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Similar:
heartsick, hopeless, downhearted, discouraged, down-hearted, despirited, lowhearted, dark-hearted, despairing, down in the dumps, more...

Opposite:
elated, ecstatic, overjoyed

Types:
happy, sad, depressed, hopeless, hopeful, despairing, more...

Phrases:
despondent utterance, opposite of despondent, more...

Adjectives:
little, long, first, most, male, only, sad, national, entire, right, consumptive

Colors:
    gray,     charcoal,     pewter,     smoke,     gunmetal, more...



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