despondent

英语

词源

源自拉丁語 dēspondēns，源自动词dēspondeō (“放弃”)。

发音

• (英國) 國際音標^(幫助): /dɪˈspɒndənt/

• （英国南部）音频：

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形容词

despondent (比較級 more despondent，最高級 most despondent)

1. 沮丧的，绝望的，气馁的，灰心的

   近義詞：參見Thesaurus:sad

   • 1913, Mrs. [Marie] Belloc Lowndes, 章號 I, 出自 The Lodger, London: Methuen, →OCLC; republished in Novels of Mystery: The Lodger; The Story of Ivy; What Really Happened, New York, N.Y.: Longmans, Green and Co., […], [1933], →OCLC，第 0056 頁:

     Thanks to that penny he had just spent so recklessly [on a newspaper] he would pass a happy hour, taken, for once, out of his anxious, despondent, miserable self. It irritated him shrewdly to know that these moments of respite from carking care would not be shared with his poor wife, with careworn, troubled Ellen.

   • 2022年12月21日, Nico Grant, Cade Metz, 引 Sridhar Ramaswamy, “A New Chat Bot Is a ‘Code Red’ for Google’s Search Business”, 出自 The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN:

     “Last year, I was despondent that it was so hard to dislodge the iron grip of Google,” said Sridhar Ramaswamy, who previously oversaw advertising for Google, including Search ads, and now runs Neeva. “But technological moments like this create an opportunity for more competition.”

     （請為本引文添加中文翻譯）

近义词

• crestfallen
• despairing
• disconsolate
• disheartened
• dejected
• downcast
• gloomy
• heartsick
• hopeless
• miserable
• sad

反义词

• cheerful
• hopeful

衍生词汇

• despondency

拉丁语

发音

• (古典拉丁語) 國際音標^(幫助): /deːsˈpon.dent/, [d̪eːs̠ˈpɔn̪d̪ɛn̪t̪]
• (教會拉丁語) 國際音標^(幫助): /desˈpon.dent/, [d̪esˈpɔn̪d̪en̪t̪]

动词

dēspondent

1. dēspondeō 的第三人稱複數現在時主動態直陳式