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Despondent vs Brokenhearted - What's the difference?

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Despondent is a related term of brokenhearted.


As adjectives the difference between despondent and brokenhearted

is that despondent is in low spirits from loss of hope or courage while brokenhearted is grieved and disappointed, especially with the loss or repudiation of a romantic relationship.

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

    brokenhearted

    English

    Adjective

  • Grieved and disappointed, especially with the loss or repudiation of a romantic relationship.

    • See also

    * heartbroken * heartbreak * heartbreaker * break someone's heart