Disappointment vs Despondent - What's the difference?
disappointment | despondent |
(uncountable) The emotion felt when a strongly held expectation is not met.
(countable) A circumstance in which a strongly held expectation is not met.
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, year=2012
, date=May 5
, author=Phil McNulty
, title=Chelsea 2-1 Liverpool
, work=BBC Sport
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.
As a noun disappointment
is the emotion felt when a strongly held expectation is not met.As an adjective despondent is
in low spirits from loss of hope or courage.disappointment
English
Noun
(en noun)- Choking back his disappointment after his own team's splendid wins against Liverpool and Aston Villa, he said: "I've got to be humble and say we were beaten by a very good side."'' — ''Today , News Group Newspapers Ltd, 1992
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- As the disappointments crowded in — the economy, Rhodesia, strife within the trade-union movement — tried the expedient of a semi-formal inner Cabinet, or Parliamentary Committee, as he misleadingly liked to call it.'' — ''Cabinet , Hennessy, Peter, Basil Blackwell Ltd, 1990