desponding

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of despond

comparative more desponding · superlative most desponding

1. That causes or communicates despondency; disheartening or despondent.

   "Somebody has hooked off with your pie," he blurted in a desponding tone.

   1869, Emily Thompson, Kingswood; or, the Harker Family Second thousand, page 67

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   [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.

   1782, Frances Burney, Cecilia, V.x.1

plural despondings

1. A feeling or expression of despondency.

   These are the despondings of men without money; but let the shining ore chink in the pocket, and folly turns to wisdom.

   1753, Edward Moore, The Gamester