adjective
- feeling or showing extreme discouragement, dejection, or loss of hope
Usage: formal; literary
Examples
- The desponding student considered dropping out of college.
- She gave him a desponding look after hearing the bad news.
- His desponding attitude affected the entire team’s morale.
- The refugees appeared desponding after months in the camp.
- Despite the setbacks, she refused to become desponding.
- The desponding tone of his letter worried his family.