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despond
[dih-spond or, especially for 2, des-pond] 
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despond
[dih-spond or, especially for 2, des-pond]
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | despair |
| Synonyms: | desperateness, desperation, despondence, despondency, discouragement, gloom, hopelessness |
| Main Entry: | brood |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | agonize over |
| Synonyms: | be in brown study, bleed, chafe inwardly, consider, daydream, deliberate, despond, dream, dwell upon, eat one's heart out, fret, gloom, grieve, lament, languish, meditate, mope, mull over, muse, ponder, reflect, repine, ruminate, sigh, speculate, stew over, sulk, sweat out, sweat over, think about, think upon, worry |
| Antonyms: | not worry |
| Main Entry: | despair |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | give up hope |
| Synonyms: | abandon, be hopeless, despond, destroy, drop, flatten, give way, have heavy heart, let air out, lose faith, lose heart, relinquish, renounce, resign, surrender, take down, yield |
| Antonyms: | anticipate, expect, have faith, hope, wish for |
| Main Entry: | languish |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | droop; become dull, listless |
| Synonyms: | be disregarded, be neglected, brood, conk out, decline, desire, despond, deteriorate, die on vine, dwindle, ebb, fade, fag, fag out, fail, faint, fizzle out, flag, go soft, go to pieces, grieve, hanker, hunger, knock out, long, pine, repine, rot, sicken, sigh, snivel, sorrow, suffer, tucker, waste, waste away, weaken, wilt, wither, yearn |
| Antonyms: | flourish, grow, improve, strengthen |
| Main Entry: | mope |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | pout, be dejected |
| Synonyms: | ache, be apathetic, be down in the mouth, be gloomy, be in a funk, bleed, brood, chafe, despair, despond, droop, eat one's heart out, fret, grieve, grumble, grump, idle, lament, languish, lose heart, moon, pine, pine away, regret, repine, sink, stew over, sulk, sweat over, waste time, wear a long face, yearn |
| Antonyms: | be elated, be happy |
| Main Entry: | desperateness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | despair |
| Synonyms: | desperation, despond, despondence, despondency, discouragement, gloom, hopelessness |
| Main Entry: | despondence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sadness |
| Synonyms: | blues, dejection, depression, desperateness, desperation, despond, despondency, disconsolateness, discouragement, disheartenment, dispiritedness, dolefulness, downheartedness, gloom, gloominess, glumness, hopelessness, melancholy, mournfulness, unhappiness |
| Main Entry: | hopelessness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | despair |
| Synonyms: | anguish, dashed hopes, dejection, desperateness, desperation, despond, despondence, despondency, discouragement, disheartenment, forlornness, gloom, melancholy, misery, ordeal, pain, sorrow, trial, tribulation, wretchedness |
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| Main Entry: | hopelessness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Adjectives: |
at one's last gasp, beyond remedy, broken, despairing, forlorn, given over, given up, hopeless, ill, impracticable, in despair, inauspicious, inconsolable, incorrigible, incurable, irreclaimable, irrecoverable, irredeemable, irremediable, irreparable, irretrievable, irreversible, irrevocable, not to be thought of, out of the question, past cure, past hope, past mending, past recall, remediless, ruined, threatening, undone, unpromising, unpropitious
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