All 4 Uses of
despondent
in
Bleak House
- If he would only have brushed up his hair or turned up his collar, it would have been bad enough; but to know that that absurd figure was always gazing at me, and always in that demonstrative state of despondency, put such a constraint upon me that I did not like to laugh at the play, or to cry at it, or to move, or to speak.†
Chpt 13-15 *
- "Touching that matter, you know, I really and truly am very sorry that my arrangements in life, combined with circumstances over which I have no control, should prevent a renewal of what was wholly terminated some time back," said Mr. Guppy to me forlornly and despondently, "but it couldn't be.†
Chpt 37-39
- I mildly entreated him not to be despondent.†
Chpt 43-45
- His hopefulness had long been more painful to me than his despondency; it was so unlike hopefulness, had something so fierce in its determination to be it, was so hungry and eager, and yet so conscious of being forced and unsustainable that it had long touched me to the heart.†
Chpt 49-51
Definition:
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(despondent) emotionally depressed -- especially a feeling of grief and hopelessness after a loss