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Relentless vs Despondent - What's the difference?

relentless | despondent |

As adjectives the difference between relentless and despondent

is that relentless is unrelenting or unyielding in severity while despondent is in low spirits from loss of hope or courage.

relentless

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Unrelenting or unyielding in severity
  • Unremitting, steady and persistent

    • Derived terms

    * relentlessness

    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