Forbidding vs Despondent - What's the difference?
forbidding | despondent |
The act by which something is forbidden; a prohibition.
* William Shakespeare
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 adjectives the difference between forbidding and despondent
is that forbidding is highly unpleasant or disagreeable while despondent is in low spirits from loss of hope or courage.As a verb forbidding
is .As a noun forbidding
is the act by which something is forbidden; a prohibition.forbidding
English
Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- But all these poor forbiddings could not stay him.