DESPONDING Synonyms: 27 Similar and Opposite Words

desponding

verb

present participle of despond

as in despairing

to lose all hope or confidence we must not despond even though we live in trying times

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Those ‘boys’ are in their late forties and fifties now — a comforting reminder, to parents who may be despairing about enduring another entry in this franchise, that all children eventually grow up.

— Caspar Salmon, Variety, 7 Aug. 2026
The book’s tone shifts from philosophical to playful to despairing to sensual, and on around again.

— The New Yorker, New Yorker, 31 Dec. 2025

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