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Despondent: Feeling or expressing despondency; dejected. ... Zeitgeist · Word of the day · Blog · Random word ... Synonyms: despondent, despairing, forlorn, hopeless; These adjectives mean being without or almost without hope: despondent about the company's failure; took a despairing view of world politics; a forlorn cause;
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The Ultimate Language Resource on the Web. ... Late Latin added the -or to this stem to create sponsor, while Old French dropped the ending and the internal N, to produce spouse. (Let's hope the only relation between our spouses and despondency is etymology.)
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Etymology: Latin despondent-, despondens, present participle of despondEre : feeling or showing extreme discouragement, dejection, or depression <despondent ...
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Etymology: Latin despondent-, ... despondent implies a deep dejection arising from a conviction of the uselessness of further effort . despairing suggests the slipping away of all hope and often despondency . desperate implies despair that prompts reckless action or violence in the face of defeat or frustration .
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He was instructed by his master to look sad, though he did not need that advice, for despondency was his natural state.) With time the meaning blackguard was transferred to all kinds of servants making a living in great households and to menial riffraff in general, ... Etymology deals with ancient roots and modern slang,
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Then it all changed, and American despondency turned into triumphalism. Partly this was because the Clinton boom contrasted so sharply with Europe’s slow growth and Japan’s decade ... ; Easy Conjugation; Feminine - Plural; Adjectives - Numbers; Articles - Adverbs; Vocabulary; Examples; Pronunciation; Etymology;
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declining decline Etymology :Middle English, from Middle French decliner, from Latin declinare to turn aside, inflect, from de- + clinare to incline; more at LEAN. Pronunciation :di-'klIn, ... To bend, or lean downward; to take a downward direction; to bend over or hang down, as from weakness, weariness, despondency, etc...
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