Desponding is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for DESPONDING in dictionary:

VERB:
• become dejected and lose confidence
NOUN:
• the act of desponding
• a state of unhappiness and low spirits.
ADJECTIVE:
• hopeless
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to lose spirit or hope

Words related to DESPONDING

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How to use DESPONDING in a sentence

• He took sad and desponding views of life, was intensely conservative, but had doubtless a lofty soul as well as intellectual supremacy.
• Indeed his habit of mind was desponding, and he took melancholy views as to the possible extent of human pleasure and the value of existence.
• Desponding, uncertain, pursued, he met his fate with the heroism of an ancient philosopher.
• Cassius, on the other hand, in his camp by the sea, was silent and desponding.
• There was nothing in the surroundings to cheer a desponding soul, but it was more than his dismal environment which weighed upon the medical assistant.
• The thought makes me melancholy, and, for the first time since I left home, have I had one of my desponding fits.
• Our sprightly Scotchman is not of a desponding and gloomy turn of mind.
• He wondered why he should have been so desponding an hour ago.
• Bloundel continued in a desponding state, but after that time she became more reconciled to the deprivation, and partially recovered her spirits.
• Those who came back from the active campaign of 1814, were sullen and desponding.
• I do not sympathize with the desponding tone of the day.
• Hope revived in the souls of the desponding sailors, almost every body desired to go on shore.
• The ministers were desponding, irresolute and incapable.
• Some natures grow hard and sullen under trial, others faithless and desponding, and yet others narrow and reserved.
• I remained I know not how long lying in a desponding, half insensible, state upon the grass.
• I suppose according as the temperament is desponding and diffident, or sanguine and self-sufficient, the one system or the other is likely to do most harm.
• I watched his receding figure until it was lost in the obscurity of the grove, and then gave myself up to the most desponding reflections.
• He had been in a sadly desponding state for some time before the occurrence of these domestic calamities.
• In this dispensation, music is one of the arts that is highly approved and is considered to be the cause of the exaltation of sad and desponding hearts.
• I have never seen her shed a tear, or utter one desponding word, from the day the news reached her until this.
• You must animate the desponding and strengthen the weak.
• The divine, wonderworking, risen Jesus, is the necessary counterpart of the amazed, believing, erring hoping, desponding, rejoicing fishermen and publicans.
• Various jobs were found for him by his desponding parents, but on every occasion he was returned to them politely.
• But it was too early then to think of desponding, so casting forebodings behind, I drove up to our rallying place, rattling over four long leagues under seventy minutes.
• So they turned their faces homewards towards Emain, Deirdre full of desponding, as one whose day of grace is past.
• Lady Juliana, who, to do her justice, was not of a more desponding character than her husband, had also her stock of hopes and expectations always ready to act upon.
• Outside of his own little family circle, doubting and desponding eyes looked upon him, and many a stupid head wagged in derision as he passed by.
• California is no place for the sick, the weak, the self-indulgent, the indolent, the desponding.
• While I was suffering from it, I wrote some sadly desponding poems, and a theological essay which took a very melancholy view of creation.
• He never uttered a desponding word in her presence.
• Dunois, the bastard of Orleans, who has eloquently protested against this desponding desertion, as he deems it, of his own cause, quits the king in anger.
• The tone of thought is grave, earnest, sometimes pensive, but never querulous or desponding.
• At that moment three men made up to and seized them, bound the son and led him, with his desponding mother, back to slavery.
• This cheering sight infused vigour into the weakest and most desponding.
• The rays of the morning sun would sometimes stream into the window before sleep had visited his eyelids, and he would rise haggard, and weary, and desponding.

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