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Dispirited vs Despondence - What's the difference?

dispirited | despondence |

As a verb dispirited

is past tense of dispirit.

As an adjective dispirited

is without energy, gusto or drive, enervated, without the will to accomplish, disheartened.

As a noun despondence is

the state of being downcast or despondent.

dispirited

English

Verb

(head)
  • (dispirit)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Without energy, gusto or drive, enervated, without the will to accomplish, disheartened.
    • So dispirited were the troops after the loss of their beloved commander that they moped about and could barely be bothered to eat let alone load their guns.
  • *{{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=April 19 , author=Josh Halliday , title=Free speech haven or lawless cesspool – can the internet be civilised? , work=the Guardian citation , page= , passage=The shift in the balance of power online has allowed anyone to publish to the world, from dispirited teenagers in south London to an anonymous cyber-dissident in a Middle East autocracy.}}

    despondence

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The state of being downcast or despondent.

    • Synonyms

    *despondency