Synonyms for despondency
dɪˈspɒn dən side·spon·den·cy

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1. despondency

   Discouragement is the result of so much repulse or failure as wears out courage. Discouragements too frequent and long continued may produce a settled hopelessness. Hopelessness is negative, and may result from simple apathy; despondency and despair are more emphatic and decided. Despondency is an incapacity for the present exercise of hope; despair is the utter abandonment of hope. Despondency relaxes energy and effort and is always attended with sadness or distress; despair may produce a stony calmness, or it may lead to desperation. Desperation is energized despair, vigorous in action, reckless of consequences.

   Synonyms:
   despair, desperation, discouragement, hopelessness

   Antonyms:
   anticipation, assurance, cheer, confidence, courage, elation, encouragement, expectancy, expectation, hope, hopefulness, trust

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1. despondency, despondence, heartsickness, disconsolatenessnoun

   feeling downcast and disheartened and hopeless

   Synonyms:
   disconsolateness, heartsickness, despondence

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1. • Depression

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1. despondencynoun

   Synonyms:
   dejection, discouragement, depression, sadness, MELANCHOLY, gloom, blues, blue devils, lowness of spirits

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1. despondencynoun

   Synonyms:
   melancholy, depression, dejection

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1. List of paraphrases for "despondency":

   discouragement, despair, dismay, desperation, malaise

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How to use despondency in a sentence?

1. Ramayana:

   Whate?er the work a man performs, The most effective aid to its completion? The most prolific source of true success? Is energy, without despondency.

2. Bharavi:

   As drops of bitter medicine, though minute, may have a salutary force, so words, though few and painful, uttered seasonably, may rouse the prostrate energies of those who meet misfortune with despondency.

3. Nelson Moses:

   Never before have we witnessed more engagement surrounding mental health. Thanks to Covid, everyone is in the same boat of despair and despondency, it has gone from (being) swept under the carpet to hitting the ceiling.

4. Raul Gallegos:

   Chavistas are willing to drive this country into a level of despondency and reduce the economy to a level Venezuela hasn't seen in decades as long as they can remain in power.