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American HeritageĀ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Feeling or expressing despondency; dejected.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Losing courage; falling into dejection; depressed; spiritless.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. In low spirits from loss of hope or courage.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Marked by despondence; given to despondence; low-spirited

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. without or almost without hope

Etymologies

  1. From Latin despondereĀ ("to give up, to abandon"). (Wiktionary)

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  • jwjarvis Turner, however, isn't despondent about humanity's quest for gravitons. He thinks we'll eventually ensnare a few of the pesky particles hiding in the shadows of more easily detected particles. May 30, 2010

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