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Despondent vs Defeatist - What's the difference?

despondent | defeatist |

As adjectives the difference between despondent and defeatist

is that despondent is in low spirits from loss of hope or courage while defeatist is of, or relating to defeatism.

As a noun defeatist is

someone who advocates defeatism, or has such an attitude.

despondent

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • 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, troubled Ellen.

    • Synonyms

    * despairing * disconsolate * disheartened * dejected * downcast * gloomy * miserable * sad

    Antonyms

    * cheerful * hopeful

    defeatist

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • of, or relating to defeatism

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • someone who advocates defeatism, or has such an attitude