Crossword-Solution: DESPONDENCY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Despondency | n. | The state of desponding; loss of hope and cessation of effort; discouragement; depression or dejection of the mind. |
We have 63 clues for the answer “DESPONDENCY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| suicidal tendency | 4 answers |
| deflation | 7 answers |
| pessimism | 10 answers |
| DEPRESSED state | 10 answers |
| "___ Shadows" | 17 answers |
| Unhappiness | 18 answers |
| defeatism | 20 answers |
| Dumps | 22 answers |
| cowardice | 25 answers |
| Slump | 26 answers |
| low spirits | 27 answers |
| hopelessness | 32 answers |
| Heartache | 32 answers |
| dolour | 39 answers |
| disconsolation | 39 answers |
| Bereavement | 41 answers |
| teardrops | 41 answers |
| wailing | 42 answers |
| Wretchedness | 42 answers |
| pining | 42 answers |
| deploring | 50 answers |
| Sobbing | 50 answers |
| sorrowing | 52 answers |
| Weeping | 52 answers |
| languishing | 53 answers |
| torture | 53 answers |
| Doldrums | 54 answers |
| Lamenting | 55 answers |
| Dejection | 58 answers |
| AGONY ___ | 59 answers |
| Grief | 61 answers |
| desperation | 61 answers |
| Sorrow | 62 answers |
| Sadness | 62 answers |
| Lamenta-tion | 63 answers |
| Lament | 63 answers |
| Anguish | 63 answers |
| Crying | 65 answers |
| mistiness | 65 answers |
| grieving | 67 answers |
| Pain | 67 answers |
| Blues | 68 answers |
| Woe | 69 answers |
| mourning | 69 answers |
| Misery | 69 answers |
| Tears | 71 answers |
| despair | 71 answers |
| funk | 72 answers |
| Darkness | 72 answers |
| Obscurity | 72 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with DESPONDENCY (5)
Sholte, the fat Russian boy, who lived for his stomach, was to be disappointed in love, grow thin, and shoot himself from despondency.
She could recognize her wild, desperate, defiant mood, the flightiness of her temper, and even some of the very cloud-shapes of gloom and despondency that had brooded in her heart.
His terror of the gallows drove him continually to commit temporary suicide, and return to his subordinate station of a part instead of a person; but he loathed the necessity, he loathed the despondency into which Jekyll was now fallen, and he resented the dislike with which he was himself regarded.
That of the serf, or bondsman, was sad and sullen; his aspect was bent on the ground with an appearance of deep dejection, which might be almost construed into apathy, had not the fire which occasionally sparkled in his red eye manifested that there slumbered, under the appearance of sullen despondency, a sense of oppression, and a disposition to resistance.
The report of the head man plunged Meriem into a period of despondency, for he had found the village of Kovudoo deserted nor, search as he would, could he discover a single native anywhere in the vicinity.
Quotes with DESPONDENCY (3)
I ought not to doubt the steadiness of your affection. Yet such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest, and thus it is, that i always feel revived, as by a new convinction, when your words tell me I am dear to you; and wanting these, I relapse into doubt and often into despondency.
Mortality Oh, why should the spirit of mortal be proud? Like a swift-fleeting meteor, a fast-flying cloud, A flash of the lightning, a break of the wave, He passes from life to his rest in the grave. The leaves of the oak and the willow shall fade, Be scattered around, and together be laid; And the young and the old, the low and the high, Shall molder to dust, and together shall lie. Yea, hope and despondency, pleasure and pain, Are mingled together in sunshine and rain; And …
A person’s outlook on life colors their interpretation of specific events. Human beings’ behavioral and thinking patterns enable people to thrive or cause them to live in despondency and despair.