despondently

Adverb

Meaning

with desperation

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Synonyms

sadly desperately darkly miserably anxiously cynically regretfully gloomily drearily abjectly dismally morosely somberly desolately glumly
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Antonyms

jauntily easily freely happily comfortably willingly
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Examples

`Why can't you understand?,' she asked despairingly Source: Internet

"The Fenollosa Papers" in Stock (1965), 177–179 Robert Graves recalled "I once asked Arthur Waley how much Chinese Pound knew; Waley shook his head despondently." Source: Internet

Instead of doing anything useful, they "attack" by committing mass suicide in front of the cross ("Zat showed 'em, huh?" says the dying Otto, to which Brian despondently replies "You silly sods!" Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

despondence despondency despondent desponder desponding despondingly