despondent
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dənt adjective
feeling or showing profound hopelessness, dejection, discouragement, or gloom: despondent about failing health.
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| —adj | |
| downcast or disheartened; lacking hope or courage; dejected | |
| de'spondence | |
| —n | |
| de'spondency | |
| —n | |
| de'spondently | |
| —adv | |
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Word Origin & History
despondent
1690s, from L. despondentem, prp. of despondere (see despondence). Related: Despondently.
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Example sentences
The last thing you want after being laid off is to become despondent or depressed.
She was depressed and despondent with a sense of helplessness and hopelessness prevailing.
Some sobbed and collapsed, while others grew despondent, the memo said.
For a long while, he sat against the wall, looking despondent.
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