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despondent

/dih-spon-duhnt/US // dɪˈspɒn dənt //UK // (dɪˈspɒndənt) //

沮丧的,惆怅的,惆怅,抑郁症

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : feeling or showing profound hopelessness, dejection, discouragement, or gloom: despondent about failing health.

Synonyms & Antonyms

adj.depressed
Synonyms
dejected沮丧的,颓废的,颓废,颓丧discouraged心灰意冷,灰心丧气,灰心丧气的,心灰意懒disheartened心灰意冷,心灰意冷的,沮丧,丧气forlorn惆怅,惆怅的,怅然若失,怅惘glum阴沉,阴郁,忧郁,忧郁的morose丧气,丧气的,悲观的,忧郁的sad悲伤,伤心,悲伤的,悲哀all torn up满目疮痍,破烂不堪,遍体鳞伤,残破不堪blue蓝色的,蓝色,蓝bummed-out闷闷不乐,闷闷不乐的,沮丧的,失望cast-down抛下,抛下的,抛锚despairing绝望的,绝望,绝望的时候,绝望地disconsolate凄凄惨惨戚戚,凄凉,凄凄惨惨,凄凉的dispirited萎靡不振,萎靡不振的,沮丧的,颓废的doleful凄惨的,哀伤的,凄凉的,悲哀的down下来,下,下来的,下降downcast灰心丧气,灰心丧气的,低落的情绪,低沉downhearted心灰意冷,灰心丧气,心灰意懒,灰心丧气的gloomy阴郁的,阴郁,阴沉,阴沉的griefstricken悲痛欲绝,悲痛欲绝的,悲痛欲绝的人,伤心欲绝grieving悲痛,悲伤,哀伤,悲痛的hopeless无可救药,没救了,无可救药的,无望的in a blue funk忧心忡忡,忧心忡忡的,忧郁症,忧郁的心情in despair在绝望中,绝望中,绝望的时候,在绝望之中in the pits在坑里,在坑中,坑内,在坑里的low低,低的,低位,低级low-spirited低调的,低调,低气质,低调的人melancholy感伤,忧郁的人,忧郁的,忧郁miserable悲惨的,凄惨的,凄惨,悲惨的事mourning哀悼,悼念,哀思,哀伤shot down被击落,击落,被击落的,被击落了sorrowful悲哀的,悲痛的,悲哀,悲痛woebegone忧郁症,忧郁的人,忧郁的,忧郁wretched凄惨的,惨不忍睹,惨不忍睹的,凄惨

Examples

  • His campaign was ready to sue over “anything suspicious,” and “a lot of things have been suspicious so far,” but he wouldn't let his voters get despondent.

  • The church “was my haven,” Archbishop Bean recalled in a 1992 interview with the Los Angeles Times, but the pastor “didn’t have an answer” and left him feeling despondent.

  • I spoke with Bailey last month, when he was still in Jamaica, and he was despondent, watching his former world in Virginia move along without him.

  • They left the Arctic with a message of encouragement to the world not to feel despondent about climate change but to take action.

  • With over 80 million people—more than twice the size of Canada’s population—my birth place and where I grew up well into my teenage years has one of the youngest and most educated, yet disillusioned and despondent societies in the region.

  • It is all too easy to be despondent in the face of what seems like the endless capacity of evil to reinvent itself.

  • Many were despondent or even suicidal when they first arrived.

  • Despondent, she choked back sobs when she saw other women with babies.

  • But I was still despondent, desperate to salvage every positive experience from a relationship that had run its course.

  • Despondent at first, Tanny gradually reached a level of acceptance.

  • Her tone was despondent, her face was drawn and blanched, and her eyes gave evidence of weeping.

  • So inert, despondent, and lethargic a moment before, he now seemed full to overflowing of life and animation.

  • "Oh, Mr. Meadows, that is too far for the naked eye to see," was the despondent reply.

  • He would have been despondent, but his soldier's training had taught him that no situation is hopeless as long as life lasts.

  • The poor boy grew morose and despondent, giving way at times to spells of the deepest depression.