despond
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
lose confidence or hope; become dejected
The supporters of the Presidential candidate desponded when they learned the early results of the election
Types & categories
- despair hypernym
Related & opposite
- despondency derivation
- despondent derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | despondency |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | despondent |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | despair |