n.
Despondency.
despondence
Dictionary:
de·spon·dence (dĭ-spŏn'dəns)  |
| Thesaurus: despondence |
noun
- Utter lack of hope: despair, desperateness, desperation, despond, despondency, hopelessness. See hope/despair.
- A feeling or spell of dismally low spirits: blues, dejection, depression, despondency, doldrums, dolefulness, downheartedness, dumps, dysphoria, funk, gloom, glumness, heavy-heartedness, melancholy, mope (used in plural), mournfulness, sadness, unhappiness. See feelings, happy/unhappy.
| WordNet: despondence |
Note: click on a word meaning below to see its connections and related words.
The noun has one meaning:
Meaning #1:
feeling downcast and disheartened and hopeless
Synonyms: despondency, heartsickness, disconsolateness
Learn More
 | despondent |
| Connie Francis (Actor, Music/Comedy) |
| Burn and Shiver (2002 Album by Azure Ray) |
Post a question - any question - to the WikiAnswers community:
Copyrights:
 |
 | Dictionary. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition Copyright © 2007, 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Updated in 2009. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. Read more |
 |
| Thesaurus. Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition by the Editors of the American Heritage® Dictionary Copyright © 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. Read more |
 |
| WordNet. WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. Read more |
ADVERTISEMENT
Mentioned in
- despondent
- Connie Francis (Actor, Music/Comedy)
- Burn and Shiver (2002 Album by Azure Ray)
- Siamese Pipe (2002 Album by The Heroine Sheiks)
- Stoney Edwards (1971 Album by Stoney Edwards)
- sustain
- Patent Pending (2006 Album by Heavens)
- Live and Learn (2007 Album by House of Fools)
- Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit (2009 Album by Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit)
- The Kugelmass Episode (Plot Summary) (story)
- Li Po
- Carolyn Mackler (children's author/illustrator)
- 1848 (chronology)
- Francesco Barsanti
