Despondent vs Despair - What's the difference?
despondent | despair |
In low spirits from loss of hope or courage.
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*: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.
(obsolete) To give up as beyond hope or expectation; to despair of.
* Milton
(obsolete) To cause to despair.
To be hopeless; to have no hope; to give up all hope or expectation.
* Bible, 2 Corinthians i. 8
Loss of hope; utter hopelessness; complete despondency.
That which is despaired of.
As an adjective despondent
is in low spirits from loss of hope or courage.As a verb despair is
to give up as beyond hope or expectation; to despair of.As a noun despair is
loss of hope; utter hopelessness; complete despondency.despondent
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Synonyms
* despairing * disconsolate * disheartened * dejected * downcast * gloomy * miserable * sadAntonyms
* cheerful * hopefuldespair
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Verb
(en verb)- I would not despair the greatest design that could be attempted.
- We despaired even of life.
Noun
- He turned around in despair , aware that he was not going to survive