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despondentadjective feeling or showing no hopeafter four days and still no word that the missing plane had been located, the relatives were despondent despairing, desperate, forlorn, hopeless blue, brokenhearted, crestfallen, dejected, depressed, disconsolate, doleful, down, downcast, downhearted, gloomy, glum, hangdog, heartbroken, heartsick, heartsore, inconsolable, joyless, low, low-spirited, melancholy, miserable, mournful, sad, saddened, sorrowful, sorry, unhappy, woebegone, woeful, wretchedabject, disappointed, discouraged, disheartened, dispiritedgrieving, wailing, weepingbleak, cheerless, comfortless, dark, depressing, desolate, dismal, drear, dreary, funerealcynical, pessimisticaccepting, resigned hopeful, optimistic ecstatic, elated, enraptured, entranced, euphoric, exhilarated, exuberant, exultantblithe, blithesome, gay, jocund, jolly, jovial, lightsome, merry, mirthfulencouraged, heartenedanimated, jaunty, lively, perky, sprightful, sprightly, vivaciousblissful, buoyant, cheerful, cheery, chipper, delighted, glad, gladdened, gladsome, gleeful, happy, joyful, joyous, jubilant, sunny, upbeat feeling unhappinessfeeling despondent over the death of another close friend bad, blue, brokenhearted, cast down, crestfallen, dejected, depressed, disconsolate, doleful, down, down in the mouth, downcast, downhearted, droopy, forlorn, gloomy, glum, hangdog, heartbroken, heartsick, heartsore, heavyhearted, inconsolable, joyless, low, low-spirited, melancholic, melancholy, miserable, mournful, sad, saddened, sorrowful, sorry, unhappy, woebegone, woeful, wretched aggrieved, distressed, troubled, uneasy, unquiet, upset, worrieddespairing, hopeless, sunkdisappointed, discouraged, disheartened, dispiritedsuicidaldolorous, lachrymose, lugubrious, plaintive, tearfulregretful, ruefulagonized, anguished, grieving, wailing, weepingblack, bleak, cheerless, comfortless, dark, darkening, depressing, desolate, dismal, drear, dreary, elegiac(also elegiacal), funereal, gray(also grey), morbid, morose, murky, saturnine, somber(or sombre), sullen blissful, buoyant, buoyed, cheerful, cheery, chipper, delighted, glad, gladdened, gladsome, gleeful, happy, joyful, joyous, jubilant, sunny, upbeat ecstatic, elated, enraptured, entranced, euphoric, exhilarated, exuberant, exultant, overjoyed, rapturous, rhapsodic(also rhapsodical)blithe, blithesome, jocose, jocular, jocund, jolly, jovial, lightsome, merry, mirthfulexcited, thrilledhopeful, optimistic, rosy, sanguineencouraged, heartenedanimated, bouncing, energetic, frisky, jaunty, lively, peppy, perky, spirited, sprightful, sprightly, springy, vital, vivacious, zippycontent, gratified, pleased, satisfiedbeaming, grinning, laughing, smilingboon, carefree, careless, cavalier, devil-may-care, easygoing, happy-go-lucky, insouciant, lighthearted, unconcerned despondent, despairing, desperate, hopeless mean having lost all or nearly all hope.despondent implies a deep dejection arising from a conviction of the uselessness of further effort.despondent about yet another rejection despairing suggests the slipping away of all hope and often despondency.despairing appeals for the return of the kidnapped child desperate implies despair that prompts reckless action or violence in the face of defeat or frustration.one last desperate attempt to turn the tide of battle hopeless suggests despair and the cessation of effort or resistance and often implies acceptance or resignation.the situation of the trapped miners is hopeless ca. 1699 |