Word Meanings - DESPOND - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To give up, the will, courage, or spirit; to be thoroughly disheartened; to lose all courage; to become dispirited or depressed; to take an unhopeful view. I should despair, or at least despond. Scott's Letters. Others depress their own minds,

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To give up, the will, courage, or spirit; to be thoroughly disheartened; to lose all courage; to become dispirited or depressed; to take an unhopeful view. I should despair, or at least despond. Scott's Letters. Others depress their own minds, despond at the first difficulty. Locke. We wish that . . . desponding patriotism may turn its eyes hitherward, and be assured that foundations of our national power still stand strong. D. Webster. Syn. -- Despond, Dispair. Despair implies a total loss of hope, which despond does not, at least in every case; yet despondency is often more lasting than despair, or than desperation, which impels to violent action. (more info) in marriage, give up, to lose ; de- + spond to promise

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DESPOND)

• Despair Despond
• faint
• Slough
• Mire
• difficulty
• despond

Related words: (words related to DESPOND)

• SLOUGHING
  The act of casting off the skin or shell, as do insects and crustaceans; ecdysis.
• FAINT
  feint, false, faint, F. feint, p.p. of feindre to feign, suppose, 1. Lacking strength; weak; languid; inclined to swoon; as, faint with fatigue, hunger, or thirst. 2. Wanting in courage, spirit, or energy; timorous; cowardly; dejected; depressed;
• DESPAIRING
  Feeling or expressing despair; hopeless. -- De*spair"ing*ly, adv. -- De*spair"ing*ness, n.
• FAINTLY
  In a faint, weak, or timidmanner.
• DESPONDENCY
  The state of desponding; loss of hope and cessation of effort; discouragement; depression or dejection of the mind. The unhappy prince seemed, during some days, to be sunk in despondency. Macaulay.
• DESPAIR
  To be hopeless; to have no hope; to give up all hope or expectation; -- often with of. We despaired even of life. 2 Cor. i. 8. Never despair of God's blessings here. Wake. Syn. -- See Despond. (more info) desperare; de- + sperare to hope; akin
• DESPONDINGLY
  In a desponding manner.
• DESPAIRFUL
  Hopeless. Spenser.
• DESPONDER
  One who desponds.
• DIFFICULTY
  difficilis difficult; dif- = dis- + facilis easy: cf. F. difficulté. 1. The state of being difficult, or hard to do; hardness; arduousness; -- opposed to easiness or facility; as, the difficulty of a task or enterprise; a work of difficulty. Not
• DESPAIRER
  One who despairs.
• DESPONDENT
  Marked by despondence; given to despondence; low-spirited; as, a despondent manner; a despondent prisoner. -- De*spond"ent*ly, adv.
• SLOUGHY
  Full of sloughs, miry.
• FAINTLING
  Timorous; feeble-minded. "A fainting, silly creature." Arbuthnot.
• FAINTISH
  Slightly faint; somewhat faint. -- Faint"ish*ness, n.
• DESPONDENCE
  Despondency. The people, when once infected, lose their relish for happiness saunter about with looks of despondence. Goldsmith.
• FAINTNESS
  1. The state of being faint; loss of strength, or of consciousness, and self-control. 2. Want of vigor or energy. Spenser. 3. Feebleness, as of color or light; lack of distinctness; as, faintness of description. 4. Faint-heartedness; timorousness;
• FAINTING
  Syncope, or loss of consciousness owing to a sudden arrest of the blood supply to the brain, the face becoming pallid, the respiration feeble, and the heat's beat weak. Fainting fit, a fainting or swoon; syncope.
• DESPOND
  To give up, the will, courage, or spirit; to be thoroughly disheartened; to lose all courage; to become dispirited or depressed; to take an unhopeful view. I should despair, or at least despond. Scott's Letters. Others depress their own minds,
• FAINTS
  The impure spirit which comes over first and last in the distillation of whisky; -- the former being called the strong faints, and the latter, which is much more abundant, the weak faints. This crude spirit is much impregnated with fusel oil. Ure.