All 3 Uses of
despondent
in
The Red Badge of Courage
- Others spoke of tattered and eternally hungry men who fired despondent powders.†
Chpt 1
- He was despondent and sullen,
Chpt 2 *despondent = depressed
- The procession of weary soldiers became a bedraggled train, despondent and muttering, marching with churning effort in a trough of liquid brown mud under a low, wretched sky.†
Chpt 24
Definition:
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(despondent) emotionally depressed -- especially a feeling of grief and hopelessness after a loss