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Dejected vs Despondent - What's the difference?

dejected | despondent | Synonyms |

Despondent is a synonym of dejected.



As adjectives the difference between dejected and despondent

is that dejected is sad and dispirited while despondent is in low spirits from loss of hope or courage.

As a verb dejected

is past tense of deject.

dejected

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Sad and dispirited.

    • Synonyms

    * disheartened, down in the mouth * despondent

    Antonyms

    * hopeful

    Derived terms

    * dejectedly

    Verb

    (head)
  • (deject)

    • 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