Grumpy vs Despondent - What's the difference?
grumpy | despondent |
Unhappy, dissatisfied and/or irritable.
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 grumpy and despondent
is that grumpy is unhappy, dissatisfied and/or irritable while despondent is in low spirits from loss of hope or courage.grumpy
English
Adjective
(er)- Tommy feels grumpy today because his friend stole his ball.
- Michael Finnell was grumpy''', but became even '''grumpier when the Celtics lost.