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Webster 1913 Edition


Despondent

De-spond′ent

,
Adj.
[L.
despondens
,
-entis
, p. pr. of
despondēre
.]
Marked by despondence; given to despondence; low-spirited;
as, a
despondent
manner; a
despondent
prisoner.
De-spond′ent-ly
,
adv.

Webster 1828 Edition


Despondent

DESPONDENT

,
Adj.
Losing courage at the loss of hope; sinking into dejection; depressed and inactive in despair.

Definition 2024


despondent

despondent

English

Adjective

despondent (comparative more despondent, superlative most despondent)

  1. In low spirits from loss of hope or courage.
    • 1915, Mrs. Belloc Lowndes, The Lodger, chapter I:
      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.

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Latin

Verb

dēspondent

  1. third-person plural present active indicative of dēspondeō