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Despondent vs Implausible - What's the difference?

despondent | implausible |

As adjectives the difference between despondent and implausible

is that despondent is in low spirits from loss of hope or courage while implausible is not plausible; unlikely; dubious.

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

    implausible

    English

    Alternative forms

    * unplausible

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Not plausible; unlikely; dubious.
  • * 2008 , February 17, , " More on Harper", Language Log ,
    • Harper finds the idea that Latin developed into the modern Romance languages too implausible to believe.