DESPONDENT Synonyms

• affected or marked by low spirits

• arising from or marked by despair or loss of hope

• made less hopeful or enthusiastic

• a ventilation shaft through which air enters a mine

• directed downward

• filled with melancholy and despondency

• depressingly dark

• filled with melancholy and despondency

• causing dejection

• without hope because there seems to be no possibility of comfort or success

• of a person unable to do something skillfully

• certain to fail

• (informal to emphasize how bad it is) beyond hope of management or reform

• lower than previously

• flattened downward as if pressed from above or flattened along the dorsal and ventral surfaces

• filled with melancholy and despondency

• made less hopeful or enthusiastic

• lacking in resolution

• filled with melancholy and despondency

• marked by or showing hopelessness

• filled with melancholy and despondency

• 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

• characterized by or causing or expressing sadness

• grave or even gloomy in character

• experiencing or marked by or expressing sorrow especially that associated with irreparable loss

• experiencing or marked by or causing sadness or sorrow or discontent

• generalized feeling of distress

• causing discomfort

• marked by or producing unhappiness

• full of sorrow

• without or almost without hope

• sad beyond comforting; incapable of being consoled

• causing dejection

• very unhappy; full of misery

• deserving or inciting pity

• of the most contemptible kind

• of very poor quality or condition

• characterized by physical misery

• contemptibly small in amount

• experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness

• of things that make you feel sad

• bad; unfortunate