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despondency

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11 lettersPronunciation /dɪˈspɒndənsi/Part of speech nounSorted cddeennopsyStarts with DEnds with Y0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. feeling downcast and disheartened and hopeless

Word origin

From Latin dēspondentia, from dēspondēns + -ia. Equivalent to despondent + -ency.

Used in a sentence

  • Not everyone succumbed to such nostalgia and despondency. Some saw the existential threat to Scots as a call to document what remained.

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