About The Word Despondency
Learn about the word Despondency to help solve your crossword puzzle. Discover Despondency definitions and meaning, origins, synonyms, related terms and more at the free Crossword Dictionary.
Despondency
| Despondency Definition And Meaning |
|---|
What's The Definition Of Despondency?
[n] feeling downcast and disheartened and hopeless
Synonyms | Synonyms for Despondency: despondence | disconsolateness | heartsickness Related Terms | Find terms related to Despondency: acedia | apathy | blank despondency | cave of despair | cave of Trophonius | death wish | dejectedness | dejection | depression | despair | desperateness | desperation | despondentness | disconsolateness | discouragement | disheartenment | dispiritedness | down trip | downcastness | downer | downheartedness | drooping spirits | forlornness | heartlessness | hopelessness | low spirits | lowness | lowness of spirit | malaise | no exit | no way | no way out | oppression | pessimism | Schmerz | self-destructive urge | sinking heart | sloth | Slough of Despond | spiritlessness | suicidal despair | taedium vitae | weariness of life See Also | blue devils | depression Despondency In Webster's Dictionary \De*spond"en*cy\, n.
The state of desponding; loss of hope and cessation of
effort; discouragement; depression or dejection of the mind.
The unhappy prince seemed, during some days, to be sunk
in despondency. --Macaulay.
|
More Crossword Puzzle Words
A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z
Cross Word Of The Day
- Caesalpinia gilliesii ‐ a tropical flowering shrub having bright orange or red flowers;…
- Minestrone ‐ soup made with a variety of…
- Shuddering ‐ shaking convulsively or…
- Synonymously ‐ in a synonymous manner; "the two terms are used…
- Permeative ‐ spreading throughout; "armed with permeative irony...he punctures…
- Hdtv ‐ a television system that has more than the usual number of lines…
- Shopping ‐ searching for or buying goods or services; "went shopping for…
- Rattlepated ‐ lacking sense or discretion; "his rattlebrained crackpot ideas";…
- Kamba ‐ a Bantu language spoken by the Kamba…
- Kv ‐ a unit of potential equal to a…