Perky vs Despondent - What's the difference?
perky | despondent |
Lively or enthusiastic.
Standing upright; firm.
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 perky and despondent
is that perky is lively or enthusiastic while despondent is in low spirits from loss of hope or courage.perky
English
Adjective
(er)- She answered with a perky smile and bounced off.
- The plant looks much perkier since I watered it.
- perky breasts
