291 synonyms found

Pronunciation:

[ dɪspˈɒndənsi], [ dɪspˈɒndənsi], [ d_ɪ_s_p_ˈɒ_n_d_ə_n_s_i]

Similar words for despondency:

• other relevant words (adjective)
• blue devils (noun)
• blues (noun)
• dejection (noun)
• depression (noun)
• despair (noun)
• desperation (noun)
• despondency (noun)
• disappointment (noun)
• downheartedness (noun)
• emotion (noun)
• feelings (noun)
• funk (noun)
• gloom (noun)
• glumness (noun)
• grief (noun)
• heartache (noun)
• heavy-heartedness (noun)
• hopelessness (noun)
• melancholy (noun)
• misery (noun)
• other relevant words (noun)
• pessimism (noun)
• sadness (noun)
• other synonyms
• other relevant words (noun)

Paraphrases for despondency

Homophones for despondency

Synonyms for Despondency:

• adj.

  • Other relevant words: (adjective)
  • mental condition.

• n.

  •
  • happy,
  • feelings,
  • mope.
  • blue devils (noun)
  • mubblefubbles,
  • Mulligrubs,
  • pink elephants,
  • DT.
  • blues (noun)
  • un-happinesses,
  • the dismal,
  • gloominesses,
  • un-happiness,
  • moodinesses,
  • un happinesses,
  • low spirit,
  • the mope,
  • un happiness.
  • dejection (noun)
  • contemplativeness,
  • dolorousness,
  • woefulness,
  • dreariness,
  • blues,
  • ennui,
  • anxiety,
  • grimness,
  • plaintiveness,
  • sullenness,
  • joylessness.
  • depression (noun)
  • heaviness of heart,
  • dispiritedness,
  • blahs,
  • cheerlessness,
  • hypochondria,
  • Melancholias,
  • lowness,
  • Disconsolation,
  • blue devils,
  • Abjectness,
  • lugubriosity,
  • the blue,
  • the blues,
  • melancholia,
  • bleakness,
  • abjection.
  • despair (noun)
  • forlornnesses.
  • desperation (noun)
  • disconsolatenesses,
  • dis tractions,
  • dis comfort,
  • dis-tractions,
  • dis traction,
  • dis-traction,
  • dis comforts,
  • dis-comfort,
  • dis-comforts.
  • despondency (noun)
  • heartsickness.
  • disappointment (noun)
  • disillusionment,
  • the knocks,
  • disenchantment,
  • bafflement,
  • disillusionments,
  • unfulfillment,
  • nonsuccess,
  • adverse fate,
  • non-success,
  • lack of success.
  • downheartedness (noun)
  • lowspiritednesses,
  • low spiritednesses,
  • lowspiritedness,
  • low spiritedness,
  • low-spiritednesses.
  • emotion (noun)
  • vibe,
  • warmth,
  • vibes,
  • responsiveness,
  • empathy,
  • excitability.
  • feelings (noun)
  • emotion.
  • funk (noun)
  • tremblings,
  • cold sweat.
  • gloom (noun)
  • saturninities,
  • fore-boding,
  • Catatonias,
  • pensivenesses,
  • fore bodings,
  • mis-giving,
  • fore boding,
  • fore-bodings,
  • mis giving.
  • glumness (noun)
  • downheartedns.
  • grief (noun)
  • in-felicity,
  • deplorings,
  • bewailings,
  • re-pining,
  • be-wailing,
  • dis quiet,
  • be moaning,
  • dis-quiet,
  • bemoanings,
  • in felicity,
  • lamentings,
  • in-felicities,
  • in felicities,
  • repinings,
  • be wailing,
  • dis quiets,
  • be-moaning,
  • re pining,
  • dis-quiets.
  • heartache (noun)
  • hurtings,
  • broken hearts.
  • heavy-heartedness (noun)
  • heavy heartedness.
  • hopelessness (noun)
  • spiritlessness,
  • abandonment,
  • anguish,
  • desperation,
  • discouragement,
  • dejection,
  • heartlessness,
  • moroseness.
  • melancholy (noun)
  • miserablenesses,
  • down trips,
  • wistfulnesses.
  • misery (noun)
  • worriments,
  • anvil choru,
  • head-ache.
  • Other relevant words: (noun)
  • gloomy outlook,
  • dolefulness,
  • down trip,
  • disconsolateness,
  • rue,
  • depression,
  • misery,
  • pensiveness,
  • dim view,
  • mournfulness,
  • heaviness,
  • the dumps,
  • heavy heart,
  • funk,
  • glumness,
  • despair,
  • broken heart,
  • dashed hopes,
  • hopelessness,
  • the dismals,
  • disheartenment,
  • expectation of worst,
  • disappointment,
  • Desperateness,
  • blue funk,
  • moodiness,
  • melancholy,
  • sadness,
  • grief,
  • morbidity,
  • dismals,
  • head ache,
  • pain,
  • sorrowfulness,
  • Dyspepsias,
  • wretchedness,
  • tribulation,
  • Miserableness,
  • heavyheartedness,
  • Infelicities,
  • headache,
  • wistfulness,
  • heavy-heartedness,
  • dashed hope,
  • dark side,
  • forlornness,
  • infelicity,
  • low-spiritedness,
  • low spirits,
  • saturninity,
  • anvil chorus,
  • lamentation,
  • disheartenments,
  • heartache,
  • despondence,
  • gloominess,
  • Downcastness,
  • pessimism,
  • gloom,
  • purgatory,
  • worriment,
  • downheartedness,
  • catatonia,
  • dolefuls,
  • dyspepsia,
  • downheartedn,
  • Morbidities,
  • the mopes.
  • pessimism (noun)
  • gloomy outlooks,
  • dark sides,
  • dim views,
  • dis trusts,
  • dis-trust,
  • dis trust,
  • dis-trusts,
  • expectation worst.
  • sadness (noun)
  • the dump,
  • grievings,
  • downcastnesses,
  • sorrowfulnesses.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • dysphoria,
  • doldrums.
  •
  • unhappiness,
  • dumps.
  • Other relevant words (noun):
  • no way out,
  • mumps,
  • self-destructive urge,
  • agony,
  • unsettle,
  • acedia,
  • dullness,
  • ill humor,
  • suffering,
  • prostration,
  • fear and trembling,
  • dolour,
  • cowardice,
  • quivering,
  • oppression,
  • apathy,
  • downer,
  • faze,
  • sorrow,
  • torment,
  • disquietude,
  • enervate,
  • impression,
  • angst,
  • death wish,
  • trembling,
  • bummer,
  • basin,
  • no exit,
  • regret,
  • anxiousness,
  • perturbation,
  • worry,
  • desolation,
  • distress,
  • abject fear,
  • blackness,
  • cavity,
  • palpitation,
  • suicidal despair,
  • woe,
  • fear,
  • mopes,
  • nervousness,
  • Lachrymals,
  • loss,
  • lugubriousness,
  • remorse,
  • horrors,
  • hurt,
  • tremor,
  • inquietude,
  • unnerve,
  • vapors,
  • heartbreak,
  • il penseroso,
  • malaise,
  • black dog,
  • resignation,
  • batophobia,
  • hypochondriasis,
  • shaking,
  • darkness,
  • flutter,
  • blank despondency,
  • taedium vitae,
  • bereavement,
  • Heartquake,
  • discomfort,
  • spleen,
  • concern,
  • dejectedness,
  • megrims,
  • restlessness,
  • trepidation,
  • pessimist,
  • mourning,
  • defeatism,
  • sloth,
  • despond,
  • ruth,
  • no way.

Paraphrases for Despondency:

• Independent

  • Noun, singular or mass
    abatement, deduction.

• Other Related

  • Noun, singular or mass
    despair, desperation, disappointment, discouragement, dismay, distress, frustration, hopelessness.

Homophones for Despondency:

• disappointing, despondence.