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despondent
English
Etymology
From Latin despondere (“to give up, to abandon”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /d??sp?nd?nt/
Adjective
despondent (comparative more despondent, superlative most despondent)
- In low spirits from loss of hope or courage.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:sad
- Thanks to that penny he had just spent so recklessly [on a newspaper] he would pass a happy hour, taken, for once, out of his anxious, despondent, miserable self. It irritated him shrewdly to know that these moments of respite from carking care would not be shared with his poor wife, with careworn, troubled Ellen.
Derived terms
- despondency
Synonyms
- crestfallen
- despairing
- disconsolate
- disheartened
- dejected
- downcast
- gloomy
- heartsick
- hopeless
- miserable
- sad
Antonyms
- cheerful
- hopeful
Translations
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /de?s?pon.dent/, [d?e?s??p?n?d??n?t?]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /des?pon.dent/, [d??s?p?n?d??n?t?]
Verb
d?spondent
- third-person plural present active indicative of d?sponde?
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brokenhearted
English
Etymology
broken +? hearted
Adjective
brokenhearted (comparative more brokenhearted, superlative most brokenhearted)
- Grieved and disappointed, especially with the loss of a beloved person or thing, such as the repudiation of a romantic relationship.
Translations
See also
- heartbroken
- heartbreak
- heartbreaker
- break someone's heart
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