despondent
Adjective Satellite
- without or almost without hope
- "despondent about his failure"
Adj
- In low spirits from loss of hope or courage.
Origin / Etymology
From Latin dēspondēns, from the verb despondere (“to give up, to abandon”).
Synonyms
heartsick, atrabiliary, atrabilious, blitheless, blue, bummed out, chapfallen, cheerless, chopfallen, crestfallen, cut up, damp, dejected, depressed, despairing, despondent, disconsolate, disgruntled, disheartened, dismal, doleful, dolesome, down, down in the dumps, down in the mouth, downcast, downhearted, downsome, dull, elegiac, elegious, forlorn, gloomy, glum, grief-stricken, grieving, heartsore, heavy-hearted, hopeless, inconsolable, infelicitous, jawfallen, joyless, lachrymose, lamentful, low, low-spirited, lugubrious, lumpish, melancholic, melancholy, miserable, moody, mopey, morose, mournful, passionate, plaintive, querulous, sad, saddened, saturnine, shattered, solemn, sombre, sorrow-ridden, sorrowful, sorrowsome, spiritless, sullen, threnetic, threnetical, triste, tristful, uncheerful, uncheery, unconsolable, unhappy, unlively, wistful, woe, woebegone, woeful, wretched
Scrabble Score: 14
despondent: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Worddespondent: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
despondent: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary