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Despondent vs Dismayed - What's the difference?

despondent | dismayed |

As adjectives the difference between despondent and dismayed

is that despondent is in low spirits from loss of hope or courage while dismayed is having the emotion of dismay.

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

    dismayed

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having the emotion of dismay.
  • He was dismayed to find his car had gone.

    Derived terms

    * dismayedness