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despondence
[dih-spon-duhn-see] 
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despondence
[dih-spon-duhn-see]
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| 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 |
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| Main Entry: | despond |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | despair |
| Synonyms: | desperateness, desperation, despondence, despondency, discouragement, gloom, hopelessness |
| Main Entry: | dolefulness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sadness |
| Synonyms: | anguish, blues, dejection, depression, despondence, despondency, doldrums, downheartedness, dumps, gloom, glumness, grief, heartache, heavy-heartedness, melancholy, mournfulness, sorrow, unhappiness, woe |
| Main Entry: | downheartedness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | gloom |
| Synonyms: | blues, dejection, depression, desolation, despondence, despondency, dispiritedness, doldrums, dolefulness, dumps, forlornness, funk, gloominess, glumness, low-spiritedness, melancholy, mournfulness, sadness, unhappiness |
| Main Entry: | glumness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | gloom |
| Synonyms: | anguish, bitterness, blue devils, blue funk, blues, catatonia, chagrin, cheerlessness, dejection, depression, desolation, despair, despondence, despondency, disconsolateness, discouragement, dismals, distress, doldrums, dolefulness, dolor, downheartedn |
| Main Entry: | heavy-heartedness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | gloom |
| Synonyms: | anguish, bitterness, blue devils, blue funk, blues, catatonia, chagrin, cheerlessness, dejection, depression, desolation, despair, despondence, despondency, disconsolateness, discouragement, dismals, distress, doldrums, dolefulness, dolor, downheartedn |
| 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 |
| Main Entry: | mournfulness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | gloom |
| Synonyms: | anguish, bitterness, blue devils, blue funk, blues, catatonia, chagrin, cheerlessness, dejection, depression, desolation, despair, despondence, despondency, disconsolateness, discouragement, dismals, distress, doldrums, dolefulness, dolor, downheartedness, dullness, dumps, dysphoria, foreboding, funk, glumness, grief, heaviness, heavy-heartedness, horror, low spirits, malaise, melancholy, misery, misgiving, mope, mopes, morbidity, mourning, oppression, pensiveness, pessimism, sadness, saturninity, sorrow, unhappiness, vexation, weariness, woe |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2012 by the Philip Lief Group.
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| Main Entry: | hopelessness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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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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