Thesaurus
despondent
Synonyms and Antonyms of despondent
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feeling or showing no hope
blue, brokenhearted, crestfallen, dejected, depressed, disconsolate, doleful, down, downcast, downhearted, gloomy, glum, hangdog, heartbroken, heartsick, heartsore, inconsolable, joyless, low, low-spirited, melancholy, miserable, mournful, sad, saddened, sorrowful, sorry, unhappy, woebegone, woeful, wretched
abject, disappointed, discouraged, disheartened, dispirited
bleak, cheerless, comfortless, dark, depressing, desolate, dismal, drear, dreary, funereal
ecstatic, elated, enraptured, entranced, euphoric, exhilarated, exuberant, exultant
blithe, blithesome, gay, jocund, jolly, jovial, lightsome, merry, mirthful
animated, jaunty, lively, perky, sprightful, sprightly, vivacious
blissful, buoyant, cheerful, cheery, chipper, delighted, glad, gladdened, gladsome, gleeful, happy, joyful, joyous, jubilant, sunny, upbeat
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feeling unhappiness
bad, blue, brokenhearted, cast down, crestfallen, dejected, depressed, disconsolate, doleful, down, down in the mouth, downcast, downhearted, droopy, forlorn, gloomy, glum, hangdog, heartbroken, heartsick, heartsore, heavyhearted, inconsolable, joyless, low, low-spirited, melancholic, melancholy, miserable, mournful, sad, saddened, sorrowful, sorry, unhappy, woebegone, woeful, wretched
aggrieved, distressed, troubled, uneasy, unquiet, upset, worried
disappointed, discouraged, disheartened, dispirited
dolorous, lachrymose, lugubrious, plaintive, tearful
agonized, anguished, grieving, wailing, weeping
black, bleak, cheerless, comfortless, dark, darkening, depressing, desolate, dismal, drear, dreary, elegiac (also elegiacal), funereal, gray (also grey), morbid, morose, murky, saturnine, somber (or sombre), sullen
ecstatic, elated, enraptured, entranced, euphoric, exhilarated, exuberant, exultant, overjoyed, rapturous, rhapsodic (also rhapsodical)
blithe, blithesome, jocose, jocular, jocund, jolly, jovial, lightsome, merry, mirthful
hopeful, optimistic, rosy, sanguine
animated, bouncing, energetic, frisky, jaunty, lively, peppy, perky, spirited, sprightful, sprightly, springy, vital, vivacious, zippy
content, gratified, pleased, satisfied
beaming, grinning, laughing, smiling
boon, carefree, careless, cavalier, devil-may-care, easygoing, happy-go-lucky, insouciant, lighthearted, unconcerned
Synonym Discussion of despondent
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- despondent about yet another rejection
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- despairing appeals for the return of the kidnapped child
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- one last desperate attempt to turn the tide of battle
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- the situation of the trapped miners is hopeless
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