All despondency synonyms
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D d noun despondency
- grief — keen mental suffering or distress over affliction or loss; sharp sorrow; painful regret.
- gloom — total or partial darkness; dimness.
- sadness — affected by unhappiness or grief; sorrowful or mournful: to feel sad because a close friend has moved away.
- despair — Despair is the feeling that everything is wrong and that nothing will improve.
- depression — A depression is a time when there is very little economic activity, which causes a lot of unemployment and poverty.
- hopelessness — providing no hope; beyond optimism or hope; desperate: a hopeless case of cancer.
- misery — wretchedness of condition or circumstances.
- dejection — Dejection is a feeling of sadness that you get, for example, when you have just been disappointed by something.
- unhappiness — sad; miserable; wretched: Why is she so unhappy?
- cheerlessness — The state or characteristic of being cheerless.
- joyless — without joy or gladness; unhappy: the joyless days of the war.
- discouragement — an act or instance of discouraging.