Despondent is valid Scrabble Word

Is despondent a scrabble word?
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10 letters word
14 points in Scrabble
17 points in WWF

Definitions for DESPONDENT in dictionary:

ADJECTIVE:

feeling or showing extreme discouragement
in low spirits from loss of hope or courage
Marked by despondence; given to despondence; low-spirited; as, a despondent manner; a despondent prisoner.
without or almost without hope

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

feeling or showing extreme discouragement, dejection, or depression

Words related to DESPONDENT

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How to use DESPONDENT in a sentence

Men who had been limping and despondent before broke into wild dances of joy.
I took the first train for the West, dazed and utterly despondent.
Juan was very despondent at this, though he was too brave to let the king know his thoughts, he told his troubles to the monkey, who assured him that the matter was very easy.
This plucked him out of his despondent state, and spurred him to action.
But the only unconsciousness which had deadened my sensibilities during these two despondent years was that of sleep itself.
As the alien pointed to the ship and talked, all the life seemed to drain out of his companion and he began looking hopeless and despondent.
Excitement was at fever heat in the South, and public sentiment paralyzed, despondent, and divided at the North.
Between brooding over his superstition and worrying about his accident, he grew very despondent.
The despondent frame of mind in which she had left home began again to overtake her, and she remembered that she wished to find Mademoiselle Reisz.
Gray had never seen her husband in so downcast and despondent a mood, and as the days passed she began to worry about him and finally became alarmed.

For a time he was bitterly despondent, but he soon cheered up when he thought of the three years ahead of him.
It is upon the anniversary of feasts that a family, if despondent at all, feels most despondent.
But with success delayed, with campaigns thwarted, with public sentiment despondent, armies ceased to fill.
A word or a smile is often enough to put fresh life in a despondent soul.
She is very well treated for a governess, but wore the usual pale, despondent look of her class.
His insecure position in life, as one dependent upon the bounty of friends, had hitherto oppressed Tegner, and at times made him moody and despondent.
Be thou neither grieved nor despondent over what hath come to pass.
Let them never lose heart, never be despondent, never feel afflicted.
They must be seeing eyes to the blind, hearing ears to the deaf, and to the dead eternal life, and to the despondent joy forever.
The Count was so gloomy and despondent that Paul feared he would end his life as he had threatened to do several times unless something turned up.
Now he would utter a despondent groan, again a long and resonant string of threatening oaths.
You need not be despondent at anything in the situation.
Freddy said the suspense was killing her, and was terribly despondent and miserable.
He neglects his studies, hates his school, leaves long before he has completed the course, and is well started on the road to an inefficient and despondent life.
She grew despondent, and the Cross family used every means to win her away from her sorrow.
The horse-dealer was now on deck again, in pretty fair condition, but he was beginning to be despondent.
In his despondent mood he had no faith in his standing with the Indians or in the letter he had written to the Agent.
But thou, when struck thine hour to go, On us, who stood despondent by, A meek last glance of love didst throw, And humbly lay thee down to die.
He sat before a handful of fire, shivering and hungry, wretched and despondent.
Never have I known him despondent as to the final result of this war.
Springing up from her despondent attitude she leaned from the doorway, and felt a flush of joy glow in her heavy little heart.
Still further, here is encouragement for despondent and timid Christians.
She found Brussels, suburbs and city alike, swarming with grey-uniformed soldiers, most of whom looked tired and despondent.

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