different between despondent vs bereaved
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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bereaved
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /b??ri?vd/
Adjective
bereaved (comparative more bereaved, superlative most bereaved)
- having suffered the death of a loved one
Verb
bereaved
- simple past tense and past participle of bereave
Anagrams
- beavered
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