GRE Word List
DESPONDENT
feeling or showing extreme discouragement, dejection, or depression
The meaning of the word despondent is feeling or showing extreme discouragement, dejection, or depression.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| belated | delayed beyond the usual time |
| plaintive | expressive of suffering or woe : melancholy |
| dispatch | to send off or away with promptness or speed |
| plumage | the feathers of a bird |
| enamored | affected by strong feelings of love, admiration, or fascination |
| sinister | singularly evil or productive of evil |
| antecedents | a substantive word, phrase, or clause whose denotation is referred to by a pronoun that typically follows the substantive (such as John in "Mary saw John and called to him") |
| concomitant | accompanying especially in a subordinate or incidental way |
| compartment | a separate division or section |
| frolicsome | full of gaiety : playful |