Despondency
noun
A state of being extremely sad and without hope.
She sunk into a state of deep despondency after her husband's death.
Often appears as...
- sink into despondency
- deep despondency
noun
A state of being extremely sad and without hope.
She sunk into a state of deep despondency after her husband's death.
Often appears as...
- sink into despondency
- deep despondency
Definition 1 of 1
Pro Tip 1/3Emotional depth
Despondency conveys deep sadness, more intense than just feeling down.
His despondency was apparent to all who knew him well.
Pro Tip 2/3Beyond sadness
It suggests a loss of hope or spirit, not just temporary unhappiness.
After the team's fourth loss, despondency settled over the players.
Pro Tip 3/3Serious tone
Despondency is a word with a heavy, serious tone, often related to significant life events.
The novel's protagonist wrestles with despondency after the war.
Pro Tip 1/3Emotional depth
Despondency conveys deep sadness, more intense than just feeling down.
His despondency was apparent to all who knew him well.
Pro Tip 2/3Beyond sadness
It suggests a loss of hope or spirit, not just temporary unhappiness.
After the team's fourth loss, despondency settled over the players.
Pro Tip 3/3Serious tone
Despondency is a word with a heavy, serious tone, often related to significant life events.
The novel's protagonist wrestles with despondency after the war.
Pro Tip 1/3Emotional depth
Despondency conveys deep sadness, more intense than just feeling down.
His despondency was apparent to all who knew him well.
Pro Tip 2/3Beyond sadness
It suggests a loss of hope or spirit, not just temporary unhappiness.
After the team's fourth loss, despondency settled over the players.
Pro Tip 3/3Serious tone
Despondency is a word with a heavy, serious tone, often related to significant life events.
The novel's protagonist wrestles with despondency after the war.
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The mystery of chronic...
retrain the nerves in the nervous system to respond normally to the activities and sensory experiences that are part of everyday life and we support all of that with a intensive psychotherapy program to address the despondency despair and
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Elliot Krane: The...
that are part of everyday life. And we support all of that with an intensive psychotherapy program to address the despondency, despair and depression that always accompanies severe, chronic pain. It's successful,
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The mystery of chronic...
retrain the nerves in the nervous system to respond normally to the activities and sensory experiences that are part of everyday life and we support all of that with a intensive psychotherapy program to address the despondency despair and
Video examples
Elliot Krane: The...
that are part of everyday life. And we support all of that with an intensive psychotherapy program to address the despondency, despair and depression that always accompanies severe, chronic pain. It's successful,
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Quote examples
Samuel Adams
American Revolutionary
If we despond, public confidence is destroyed, the people will no longer yield their support to a hopeless contest, and American liberty is no more. Through the darkness which shrouds our prospects, the ark of safety is visible. Despondency becomes not the dignity of our cause, nor the character of those who are its supporters.
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Pete Holmes
American Comedian
I can't speak for everybody. But I will say that for me, when I've been depressed - and I get depressed. I have irrational bouts of anxiety. I have random FedEx deliveries of despondency. Just like, 'I didn't order this. Oh, well, keep the PJs on, cancel everything you're doing today. It's time to take a sad shower.
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Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
British Statesman
Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable.
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Dorothea Dix
American Activist
The olive branch has been consecrated to peace, palm branches to victory, the laurel to conquest and poetry, the myrtle to love and pleasure, the cypress to mourning, and the willow to despondency.
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John Agyekum Kufuor
Ghanaian Statesman
Ours is not a poor country and even though we are now a poor people, there should be no room for the despondency that has settled on large sections of the population.
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Yogi Adityanath
Indian Politician
Winning and losing have their significance in a democracy. But there should be no arrogance in victory, nor should there be any despondency in defeat.
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George Eliot
British Author
There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.
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Joseph Barber Lightfoot
English Theologian
This is God's work. Therefore it must be triumphant. There is no place for misgiving or despondency.
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Baruch Spinoza
Dutch Philosopher
The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.
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Ezra Taft Benson
American Leader
Sin pulls a man down into despondency and despair.
Quote examples
Samuel Adams
American Revolutionary
If we despond, public confidence is destroyed, the people will no longer yield their support to a hopeless contest, and American liberty is no more. Through the darkness which shrouds our prospects, the ark of safety is visible. Despondency becomes not the dignity of our cause, nor the character of those who are its supporters.
Quote examples
Pete Holmes
American Comedian
I can't speak for everybody. But I will say that for me, when I've been depressed - and I get depressed. I have irrational bouts of anxiety. I have random FedEx deliveries of despondency. Just like, 'I didn't order this. Oh, well, keep the PJs on, cancel everything you're doing today. It's time to take a sad shower.
Quote examples
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
British Statesman
Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable.
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Dorothea Dix
American Activist
The olive branch has been consecrated to peace, palm branches to victory, the laurel to conquest and poetry, the myrtle to love and pleasure, the cypress to mourning, and the willow to despondency.
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John Agyekum Kufuor
Ghanaian Statesman
Ours is not a poor country and even though we are now a poor people, there should be no room for the despondency that has settled on large sections of the population.
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Yogi Adityanath
Indian Politician
Winning and losing have their significance in a democracy. But there should be no arrogance in victory, nor should there be any despondency in defeat.
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George Eliot
British Author
There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.
Quote examples
Joseph Barber Lightfoot
English Theologian
This is God's work. Therefore it must be triumphant. There is no place for misgiving or despondency.
Quote examples
Baruch Spinoza
Dutch Philosopher
The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.
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Ezra Taft Benson
American Leader
Sin pulls a man down into despondency and despair.
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