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DESPONDENCE Synonyms

There are 15 synonyms of the word despondence. (exact relations)
There are 7 hypernyms of the word despondence. (close relations)
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dejection
nounn
noun

• a state of melancholy depression

• solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels

depression
nounn
noun

• a mental state characterized by a pessimistic sense of inadequacy and a despondent lack of activity

• a period during the 1930s when there was a worldwide economic depression and mass unemployment

• a long-term economic state characterized by unemployment and low prices and low levels of trade and investment

• a sunken or depressed geological formation

• sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy

• an air mass of lower pressure; often brings precipitation

• a state of depression and anhedonia so severe as to require clinical intervention

• a concavity in a surface produced by pressing

• angular distance below the horizon (especially of a celestial object)

• pushing down

desolation
nounn
noun

• the state of being decayed or destroyed

• a bleak and desolate atmosphere

• sadness resulting from being forsaken or abandoned

• an event that results in total destruction

despair
nounn
noun

• a state in which all hope is lost or absent

• the feeling that everything is wrong and nothing will turn out well

verb

• abandon hope; give up hope; lose heart

discouragement
nounn
noun

• the feeling of despair in the face of obstacles

• the expression of opposition and disapproval

• the act of discouraging

gloom
nounn
noun

• a state of partial or total darkness

• a feeling of melancholy apprehension

• an atmosphere of depression and melancholy

grief
nounn
noun

• intense sorrow caused by loss of a loved one (especially by death)

• something that causes great unhappiness

hopelessness
nounn
noun

• the despair you feel when you have abandoned hope of comfort or success

melancholy
noun, adjectiven, adj
noun

• a feeling of thoughtful sadness

• a constitutional tendency to be gloomy and depressed

• a humor that was once believed to be secreted by the kidneys or spleen and to cause sadness and melancholy

adjective satellite

• characterized by or causing or expressing sadness

• grave or even gloomy in character

misery
nounn
noun

• a state of ill-being due to affliction or misfortune

• a feeling of intense unhappiness

sadness
nounn
noun

• emotions experienced when not in a state of well-being

• the state of being sad

• the quality of excessive mournfulness and uncheerfulness

sorrow
nounn
noun

• an emotion of great sadness associated with loss or bereavement

• sadness associated with some wrong done or some disappointment

• something that causes great unhappiness

• the state of being sad

verb

• feel grief

despondency
nounn
noun

• feeling downcast and disheartened and hopeless

disconsolateness
nounn
noun

• feeling downcast and disheartened and hopeless

heartsickness
nounn
noun

• feeling downcast and disheartened and hopeless

Best Hypernyms For DESPONDENCE

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condition depression emotion feeling mood spirit state

Alternatives for DEJECTION

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