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Meanings of despondent in English

Without or almost without hope.

        Related terms

        Deeply agitated especially from emotion.

              Usage of despondent in English
              1
              He was feeling despondent that he wasn't going to win this case.
              Mortal Allies
              2
              Over against the curb a lone electric stood despondent in the storm.
              Youth and the Bright Medusa
              3
              His daughter too felt utterly wretched, and despondent in the highest degree.
              The Delight Makers
              4
              It breathed the following sentiments: The writer is poor, but not despondent.
              Somebody's Luggage
              5
              Rather despondent he said goodbye to the photographer and entered the taxi.
              Men of Affairs
              6
              I took the first train for the West, dazed and utterly despondent.
              Aunt Jane's Nieces and Uncle John
              7
              Discouraged, but not despondent, he turned in the direction of his apartments.
              File No. 113
              8
              But as he lay in bed that night he felt utterly despondent.
              Absalom's Hair
              9
              In another letter, written a year later, the tone is still despondent.
              A Writer's Recollections — Volume 1
              10
              Funny how some men have all the luck, murmured the despondent foreman.
              Wyoming: A Story of the Outdoor West
              11
              Ten minutes ago I was despondent when; I sat down to write.
              The Romance Of Giovanni Calvotti / From Coals Of Fire And Other ...
              12
              Brooding and despondent he took his solitary way into the deepest jungle.
              The Son of Tarzan
              13
              Her luncheons were indeed sufficient to cheer the most despondent and misanthropic.
              Lady Rosamond's Secret: A Romance of Fredericton
              14
              This issue takes a despondent view of the difficulties that beset editors.
              A Study of Hawthorne
              15
              Toward the close of summer Karin became utterly despondent over her condition.
              Jerusalem
              16
              Yet such distress served to check the despondent outlook of future years.
              Oswald Langdon / or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1...
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