despondency

Meanings

Plural: despondencies

Noun

• feeling downcast and disheartened and hopeless
• The loss of hope or confidence; despair or dejection.
• A feeling of depression or disheartenment.

Synonyms

blueness, blues, crestfallenness, dejection, depression, despair, desperation, despond, despondence, despondency, disconsolateness, distress, dolefulness, downheartedness, drearihead, forlornness, grief, heartsickness, heartsore, hopelessness, ill-being, infelicity, melancholia, melancholy, misery, mishappiness, mourn, prosternation, regret, rue, ruth, sadness, sorrow, sorrowfulness, tristfulness, undelight, unhappiness, unhope, wanhope, woe, woefare, wretchedness