despond 

  1. 動詞
不及物動詞:
沮喪
失望, 垂頭喪氣
心灰意懶
/此動詞過去式與過去分詞為"desponded"/
/現在分詞為"desponding"/
/第三者單數現在式為"desponds"/

    同義字詞
despair

  2. 名詞
不可數名詞:
沮喪
失去勇氣, 失望
喪氣, 意氣消沉
限定單數the Slough of Despond:
絕望的深淵
極度沮喪的狀態

    同義字詞
blues,dejection,depression,desolation,despondence,despondency,disconsolateness,dispiritedness,doldrums,dolefulness,downheartedness,dreariness,dumps,forlornness,gloom,gloominess,glumness,heartsickness,joylessness,melancholy,miserableness,mopes,mournfulness,oppression,sadness,sorrowfulness,unhappiness
despair,desperation,despondence,despondency,forlornness,hopelessness

例句

  1. Why then despond now?
  2. But the heroic old man did not despond .
  3. The despond in the housing market is fading.
  4. The student was taught to despond from the first.
  5. Help, Christian's rescuer from the Slough of Despond .