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Definition of despond in English: despondverb dɪˈspɒnddəˈspɑnd [no object]archaic Become dejected and lose confidence. 〈古〉感到沮丧；失去信心 I thought it right not to let my young lady despond Example sentencesExamples - The morning of June 8th, he rose late because ‘I was desponding, owing to a little difference between my wife and me.’
- Aleila looked at the desponding bandit, and even though he had brought this misery on himself, she couldn't help but feel sad for him.
- These… these are things that you needn't despond over at your age.
- A lot of us over here get desponded about this place sometimes.
- Did perhaps their hearts despond, because lonesomeness had swallowed me like a whale?
Synonyms be despondent, lose heart, give up hope, become dispirited, become dejected
noundɪˈspɒnddəˈspɑnd mass nounA state of unhappiness and low spirits. Example sentencesExamples - That is making it nearly impossible to craft monetary policy that is both hawkish on inflation, and doesn't throw huge economies deeper into the slough of economic despond.
- Business confidence is the most intangible, but vital, of factors, as anyone who watched the country drag itself out of the despond of the 1980s can testify.
- Europeans, on the other hand, are in a despond of high unemployment and economic sclerosis.
- And she had affected so many people so deeply, that her loss on the negative side took them much deeper into grief and despond, I think, than anybody had ever experienced.
- Against that has to be weighed the tired limbs of an unusually arduous season and the traditional role of the eternal unfulfilled that may once again drag them down into a familiar despond.
OriginMid 17th century: from Latin despondere 'give up, abandon', from de- 'away' + spondere 'to promise'. The word was originally used as a noun in Slough of Despond. Rhymesabscond, beau monde, beyond, blonde, bond, correspond, demi-monde, fond, frond, Gironde, haut monde, pond, respond, ronde, second, wand Definition of despond in US English: despondverbdəˈspänddəˈspɑnd [no object]archaic Become dejected and lose confidence. 〈古〉感到沮丧；失去信心 I thought it right not to let my young lady despond Example sentencesExamples - These… these are things that you needn't despond over at your age.
- The morning of June 8th, he rose late because ‘I was desponding, owing to a little difference between my wife and me.’
- A lot of us over here get desponded about this place sometimes.
- Aleila looked at the desponding bandit, and even though he had brought this misery on himself, she couldn't help but feel sad for him.
- Did perhaps their hearts despond, because lonesomeness had swallowed me like a whale?
Synonyms be despondent, lose heart, give up hope, become dispirited, become dejected
noundəˈspänddəˈspɑnd A state of unhappiness and low spirits. Example sentencesExamples - Europeans, on the other hand, are in a despond of high unemployment and economic sclerosis.
- That is making it nearly impossible to craft monetary policy that is both hawkish on inflation, and doesn't throw huge economies deeper into the slough of economic despond.
- Against that has to be weighed the tired limbs of an unusually arduous season and the traditional role of the eternal unfulfilled that may once again drag them down into a familiar despond.
- Business confidence is the most intangible, but vital, of factors, as anyone who watched the country drag itself out of the despond of the 1980s can testify.
- And she had affected so many people so deeply, that her loss on the negative side took them much deeper into grief and despond, I think, than anybody had ever experienced.
OriginMid 17th century: from Latin despondere ‘give up, abandon’, from de- ‘away’ + spondere ‘to promise’. The word was originally used as a noun in Slough of Despond. |