despondent
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despondent
- /dɪˈspɒndənt/ UK
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From Latin dēspondēns, from the verb despondere (“to give up, to abandon”).
adjective more despondent · most despondent
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In low spirits from loss of hope or courage.
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,
Similar: atrabiliary, atrabilious, blitheless, dispirited, blue, bummed out, chapfallen, cheerless, chopfallen, crestfallen, cut up, damp
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adj in low spirits from loss of hope or courage
| Español | abatido, descorazonado |
|---|---|
| 日本語 | 落胆した rakutan-shita, 失意の shitsui-no, 消然 shōzen, 悲しい kanashii |
| 中文 | 懊喪 /懊丧 àosàng, 抑鬱 /抑郁 yìyù, 氣餒 /气馁 qìněi, 灰心 huīxīn, 沮喪 /沮丧 jǔsàng, 哀傷 /哀伤 āishāng |
| Português | abatido, desencorajado, desanimado, desacorçoado |
| Français | déprimé, abattu, découragé, triste |
| Deutsch | mutlos, niedergeschlagen, deprimiert, entmutigt, traurig |
| Italiano | abbattuto, scoraggiato |
| Ελληνικά | άθυμος áthymos |
| Русский | уны́лый unýlyj, пода́вленный podávlennyj, мра́чный mráčnyj, удручённый udručónnyj, угнетённый ugnetjónnyj, гру́стный grústnyj |
| Tiếng Việt | chán nản |
| العربية | قَانِط qāniṭ, أَسْوَان ʔaswān, بَائِس bāʔis, حَزِين ḥazīn |
| עברית | מיואש meyu'ásh |
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title = {despondent},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
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urldate = {2026-11-06}
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