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Despondent vs Destitute - What's the difference?

despondent | destitute |

As adjectives the difference between despondent and destitute

is that despondent is in low spirits from loss of hope or courage while destitute is lacking something; devoid; especially lacking money; poor, impoverished, poverty-stricken.

despondent

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • 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.

    • Synonyms

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

    Antonyms

    * cheerful * hopeful

    destitute

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Lacking something; devoid; especially lacking money; poor, impoverished, poverty-stricken.
  • * Bible, Psalm 141:8
    • In thee is my trust; leave not my soul destitute .

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