34 adjectives to describe despondency

The death of Judas was of course followed by great disorders and universal despondency.

During the next two days, the boys maintained their appearance of extreme despondency.

"If," she writes, in a strain of anxious despondency very foreign to her usual tone, and which shows how deeply she felt the importance of the crisis, and of every step that might be taken "if he will but undertake the task, it is the best thing that can be done; but I tremble (excuse my weakness) at the fact that it is I who have brought him back.

Antony was sunk in a hopeless despondency.

I had occasion to see the Pope at that time, and found him in profound despondency, evidently persuaded that Garibaldi would come to Rome.

He did not sink, however, into absolute despondency; his courage soon revived.

[Footnote 1: The tone of dignified despondency which pervades this remarkable preface tells us much.

Months passed awaymonths of dreary, monotonous despondency, through which ran a vein of anxiety that banished peace.

And while she had sat with him and talked with him he had seemed to awaken out of that dull despondency, gleams of pleasure had lighted up his wrinkled facehe had grown animated, a sentient living instead of a corpse alive.

The result was a dozen vague surmises,only one of which seemed to be popular, and to suit the dyspeptic despondency of the party,a despondency born of hastily masticated fried pork and flapjacks.

" "I do nothing but misbehave," she said, in earnest despondency.

"In the very heat of battle," said he, "the pain of my wounds was not accompanied by the gloomy despondency which now depresses me, and by a slow, but sure progress, is conducting me to death.

She talked for a long time, until gradually the man's gray despondency gave way to her own bright optimism.

They should beware of an heartless despondency, and giving way to discouragement, and hearkening to the language of unbelief, or to the suggestion of Satan, whereby he will labour to persuade them of the impossibility of getting the work of sanctification throughed, or any progress made therein to purpose.

He stood, silent as his own shadow, while the coachman rubbed away with less and less purpose, until his hands stood quite still and his whole figure drooped in irresistible despondency.

It has frequently happened that when Arctic voyagers have, from sickness and long confinement during a monotonous winter, become so depressed in spirits that games and amusements of every kind bailed to rouse them from their lethargic despondency, sudden danger has given to their minds the needful impulse, and effected a salutary change, for a time at least, in their spirits.

He was a great dissembler of his natural temper, which was fallen, morose, and peevish, where he durst shew it; but he was of a timorous disposition and the least slight or neglect offered to him, would throw him into a melancholy despondency.

Months passed awaymonths of dreary, monotonous despondency, through which ran a vein of anxiety that banished peace.

The men gave themselves up to moody despondency.

In the sheer exhaustion of his resources, in his numb despondency, he neglected even to drive the horse out of the water.

" Charlotte's own life at Miss Wooler's was a very happy one until her health failed, and she became dispirited, and a prey to religious despondency.

At his brightest moments he gives expression to a vague pantheism, but all his views of the power that lies behind life are obscured and perturbed by sceptical despondency.

il penseroso [It], melancholia, dismals^, blues, lachrymals^, mumps^, dumps, blue devils, doldrums; vapors, megrims, spleen, horrors, hypochondriasis [Med.], pessimism; la maladie sans maladie [Fr.]; despondency, slough of Despond; disconsolateness &c adj.; hope deferred, blank despondency; voiceless woe.

With fear and trembling did the inhabitants await the approach of each morning, and in spiritless despondency they seemed to have lost all capacity for helping themselves.

Of the misery of Ireland it was said (I think by Sheridan): "It fevered his blood, it broke his rest, it drove him at times half frantic with furious indignation, it sunk him at times in abysses of sullen despondency, it awoke in him emotions which in ordinary men are seldom excited save by personal injuries.

34 adjectives to describe  despondency