despond

Synonyms

despair;

Antonyms

brighten, cheer (up), perk (up);

Near Antonyms

exult, rejoice;

assure, encourage, hearten, reassure;

hope;

Related Words

give up, surrender, yield;

darken, sadden;

agonize, bleed, grieve, hurt, mourn, sorrow, suffer;

discourage, dishearten, dispirit;

Phrases

lose heart;

Synonyms

blues, dejection, depression, desolation, despondence, despondency, disconsolateness, dispiritedness, doldrums, dolefulness, downheartedness, dreariness, dumps, forlornness, gloom, gloominess, glumness, heartsickness, joylessness, melancholy, miserableness, mopes, mournfulness, oppression, sadness, sorrowfulness, unhappiness;

Antonyms

bliss, blissfulness, ecstasy, elatedness, elation, euphoria, exhilaration, exuberance, exultation, felicity, gladness, happiness, joy, joyfulness, joyousness, jubilation, rapture, rapturousness;

Near Antonyms

gaiety (also gayety), gayness, glee, gleefulness, humor, jollity, joviality, lightheartedness, merriment, mirth, mirthfulness;

cheer, cheerfulness, cheeriness, hopefulness, optimism, sunniness;

contentedness, contentment, satisfaction;

delight, gratification;

Related Words

melancholia, self-pity;

anguish, dolor, grief, mourning, somberness, sorrow, woefulness;

agony, distress, pain;

misery, woe, wretchedness;

discouragement, disheartenment;

moodiness;

despair, desperation, hopelessness;

dismalness, morbidness, moroseness;