despond
Sink into gloom
Despond means to lose heart or become dejected, giving way to discouragement: After months of rejection letters, she began to despond.
The word is literary and old-fashioned, largely displaced by its noun form despondency and adjective despondent.
The Slough of Despond in Bunyan's *Pilgrim's Progress* is a bog representing hopelessness.
Total absence of hope
- pessimismExpecting unfavorable outcomes
- bleaknessQuality of being dreary
- futilityLack of purpose
- helplessnessLacking ability to cope
desperation · abandonment · emptiness · nihilism · fatalism · discouragement · powerlessness · defeatism
Deep emotional distress
- heartacheDeep emotional distress
- miseryIntense prolonged distress
- woeGreat sorrow or distress
- anguishIntense mental suffering
despair · dismay · disheartenment · downheartedness · moroseness · forlornness · disconsolation · grief
Quietly, sadly thoughtful
- wistfulSadly longing for something
- plaintiveSounding sad, sorrowful
- somberGravely serious in mood
- dolefulExpressing deep sorrow
forlorn · mournful · nostalgic · yearning · melancholia · brooding · languishing · world-weary
Consent to receive
- stoicismUncomplaining acceptance of difficulty
- surrenderCease resistance, yield
- acquiescenceUnresisting acceptance
- submissionYielding to another's will
yielding · capitulation · forbearance · indifference · detachment · fatalism · endurance · passivity
despair
Total absence of hope
helplessness · desperation · abandonment · emptiness · nihilism · fatalism · discouragement · powerlessness · defeatism · despairing
sorrow
Deep emotional distress
anguish · despair · dismay · disheartenment · downheartedness · moroseness · forlornness · disconsolation · grief · mournfulness
pensive
Quietly, sadly thoughtful
doleful · forlorn · mournful · nostalgic · yearning · melancholia · brooding · languishing · world-weary · heavy-hearted
acceptance
Consent to receive
- stoicismUncomplaining acceptance of difficulty
- surrenderCease resistance, yield
- acquiescenceUnresisting acceptance
submission · yielding · capitulation · forbearance · indifference · detachment · fatalism · endurance · passivity · listlessness
despondhope
Desire for good outcomes
hopefulness · take heart · optimism · rally · trust