different between despondent vs apathetic
despondent
English
Etymology
From Latin despondere (“to give up, to abandon”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /d??sp?nd?nt/
Adjective
despondent (comparative more despondent, superlative most despondent)
- In low spirits from loss of hope or courage.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:sad
- Thanks to that penny he had just spent so recklessly [on a newspaper] he would pass a happy hour, taken, for once, out of his anxious, despondent, miserable self. It irritated him shrewdly to know that these moments of respite from carking care would not be shared with his poor wife, with careworn, troubled Ellen.
Derived terms
- despondency
Synonyms
- crestfallen
- despairing
- disconsolate
- disheartened
- dejected
- downcast
- gloomy
- heartsick
- hopeless
- miserable
- sad
Antonyms
- cheerful
- hopeful
Translations
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /de?s?pon.dent/, [d?e?s??p?n?d??n?t?]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /des?pon.dent/, [d??s?p?n?d??n?t?]
Verb
d?spondent
- third-person plural present active indicative of d?sponde?
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apathetic
English
Alternative forms
- apathetical
Etymology
apathy +? -etic
Pronunciation
- (General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /æp.????t.?k/
- Rhymes: -?t?k
Adjective
apathetic (comparative more apathetic, superlative most apathetic)
- Void of feeling; not susceptible of deep emotion
- Synonyms: passionless, indifferent
- Of, or pertaining to apatheism.
Synonyms
- incurious, indifferent, impassive
- See also: Thesaurus:calm
Related terms
- apatheism
- apatheist
Translations
References
- apathetic in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
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