What's the difference between despondent and hopeless?

Despondent


Definition:

  • (a.) Marked by despondence; given to despondence; low-spirited; as, a despondent manner; a despondent prisoner.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) After she hit the two-year mark, five-month mark, she’s been despondent.
  • (2) It was hard to reconcile Pistorius's despondent figure in black suit and tie and white shirt with the "blade runner" who thrilled stadiums around the world and became the first amputee to run in the Olympics .
  • (3) But actually what we felt as the days and weeks passed – me and Kelly and my father – was a sense of despondency, of being let down, of just sinking through the system.
  • (4) In 46%, the subject had expressed despondency over illness.
  • (5) There is a sense of despondency spreading in Pakistan.
  • (6) The value of Brazil's currency, the real, has ballooned since President Lula took power, leaving exporters despondent and leading Goldman Sachs to classify it as the most overvalued currency on earth.
  • (7) , became a battle manual for despondent Democrats after George W Bush’s second election victory.
  • (8) He told worshippers at Durham cathedral: "It is very easy to be despondent about the church.
  • (9) Pablo Simón, a political science professor at Madrid’s Carlos III University, argues that a fresh election and the attendant politicking could further alienate an already despondent electorate.
  • (10) In Spike Jonze 's Her, set in a near future LA, Phoenix is Theodore, a despondent, solitary writer whose life picks up when he falls in love with Samantha, a portable, artificially intelligent operating system who provides more than he could have hoped for.
  • (11) [It is] all the Ds: despair, depression, despondency.” “Chinese media are under a lot of pressure right now.
  • (12) Jose Mourinho: Rafa Benitez destroyed my work at Inter within six months Read more There wasn’t too much to get excited or despondent about in any of the displays in New York, Charlotte or here in Washington DC.
  • (13) Rob came very close to death many times, and I think part of James's despondency now comes from having saved Rob so many times, only to lose him in the end.
  • (14) They have been left despondent by Francis's occasional comments on the issue, in which he has generally defended the church while condemning the abuse.
  • (15) Despondent MPs tonight voiced fears that Britain may experience a milder ­version of the "clean hands" affair that brought down Italy's postwar political settlement in the 1990s.
  • (16) Strong was despondent over Bilibid but recovered and developed a noteworthy career in American tropical medicine.
  • (17) It has been demonstrated that a small proportion of women taking oral contraceptives develop a depressive syndrome characterized by despondency, tension, and changes in sex desire.
  • (18) A classic portrait of the grieving widower, his despondency did not surprise mental health professionals.
  • (19) For those who don't get the results they hoped for – and their chosen universities – the moments after the envelope are full of dread and despondency.
  • (20) It is easy to see why players bounce off Klopp and indeed it was tempting to wonder if Chelsea’s despondent players were casting the occasional envious glance at the German, whose energetic and engrossing touchline demeanour offered a welcome shade of light next to José Mourinho ’s dark scowl.

Hopeless


Definition:

  • (a.) Destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing.
  • (a.) Giving no ground of hope; promising nothing desirable; desperate; as, a hopeless cause.
  • (a.) Unhoped for; despaired of.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Its experiments are so hopelessly flawed that the results are meaningless."
  • (2) They were preceded by the publication of The Success and Failure of Picasso (1965) and Art and Revolution: Ernst Neizvestny and the Role of the Artist in the USSR (1969); in one, he made a hopeless mess of Picasso’s later career, though he was not alone in this; in the other, he elevated a brave dissident artist beyond his talents.
  • (3) Rather than ruthlessly efficient, I have found them sweet and a bit hopeless."
  • (4) Alcohol and drugs are influential in providing a feeling of hopelessness by their toxic effects, by disruption of interpersonal relationships and social supports, and, possibly, by manipulating neurotransmitters responsible for mood and judgment.
  • (5) The authors document the first 19 months of a service dedicated to the care of hopelessly ill patients in a teaching hospital.
  • (6) "); hopeless self-pity ("Nobody said anything to me about Billy ... all day long") and rage ("You want to put a bench in the park in Billy's name?
  • (7) Winston Churchill, when he was offered the role of minister of the local government board in 1906, commented: "There is no place more laborious, more anxious, more thankless, more cloaked with petty and even squalid detail, more full of hopeless and insoluble difficulties."
  • (8) It’s all very well for Hopeless to make fun of me saying Brexit means Brexit,” said Hapless, haplessly.
  • (9) Meanwhile, the dance music that sells in any quantity is just hopeless.
  • (10) Both depression and hopelessness were sensitive to changes in suicide risk during the one-month follow-up.
  • (11) Many aspects of the theory's descriptive claims about depressive thinking have been substantiated empirically, including (a) increased negativity of cognitions about the self, (b) increased hopelessness, (c) specificity of themes of loss to depressive syndromes rather than psychopathology in general, and (d) mood-congruent recall.
  • (12) In addition, the paper presents the author's experience with human vitreous transplantation by the 'open sky' transcorneal technique for otherwise hopeless vitreous opacities.
  • (13) The relationship between depression and suicide disappears when hopelessness is taken into account.
  • (14) The performance of controls and DST escapers was related to depth of semantic processing, whereas performance of DST suppressors varied inversely with degree of felt hopelessness.
  • (15) The question of vulnerability to DSH is discussed as well as the possibility of using measures of hopelessness and intropunitive hostility to identify those at greater risk of repetition.
  • (16) But the Labour leader has only himself to blame because of his hopelessly woolly response to a question on this in his BBC interview on Monday.
  • (17) "It was a certain kind of titillation the shop offered," the critic Matthew Collings has written, "sexual but also hopeless, destructive, foolish, funny, sad."
  • (18) Shinji Kagawa could not make any real difference and Marouane Fellaini continues to look hopelessly out of his depth.
  • (19) Anhedonia, diurnal variation, hopelessness, psychomotor retardation, and delusions increased with age; depressed appearance, low self-esteem, and somatic complaints decreased with age.
  • (20) Four cases received no treatment but were recalled, and twelve perforations showed a size and location hopeless for repair; the teeth were therefore extracted.