desponding
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.02 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
That causes or communicates despondency; disheartening or despondent.
noun
A feeling or expression of despondency.
Example Sentences
- "[T]he doubts, apprehensions, and desponding suspense which had accompanied her setting out, were now all removed, and certainty, ease, the expectation of happiness, and the cessation of all perplexity, had taken their place."
- ""Somebody has hooked off with your pie," he blurted in a desponding tone."
- "These are the despondings of men without money; but let the shining ore chink in the pocket, and folly turns to wisdom."