What's the difference between despondent and inconsolable?

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.

Inconsolable


Definition:

  • (a.) Not consolable; incapable of being consoled; grieved beyond susceptibility of comfort; disconsolate.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Finally, common concerns of the newborn period (inconsolable crying, apnea, respiratory irregularities, jaundice, risk of infection, gastrointestinal problems, and acute eye disorders) are discussed in conjunction with aspects of the differential diagnosis and indications for referral.
  • (2) Corneal abrasion should be considered when inconsolable crying appears in an otherwise asymptomatic infant.
  • (3) One Tonibler arrived in Pristina after the show was over and is said to have been inconsolable; a few more were invited but did not appear.
  • (4) FTT children were perceived overall as more stressful, less adaptable, more inconsolable, and more unhappy than were healthy children.
  • (5) Even two weeks into the life of the coalition, the new business secretary looked inconsolable.
  • (6) That was until Geri left, and I cried inconsolably to Goodbye on repeat.
  • (7) Moments later Dann looked inconsolable after Dame N’Doye drifted inside from the right, met Jermain Defoe’s pass and, from around 25 yards, dispatched an apparently benign shot that took a hefty deflection off the centre-half’s boot before looping beyond the wrong-footed Hennessey.
  • (8) Inconsolable crying is a disturbing symptom in young infants.
  • (9) Westwood and some of his team-mates were inconsolable at full time but the future is bright at Hillsborough and when the pain of failing to jump the final fence subsides there will be cause to be proud and, maybe most important of all for the blue side of Sheffield, optimism at what is to follow.
  • (10) He would depart at the end inconsolable with tears stinging his eyes.
  • (11) Infants with colic (n = 65) were selected on the basis of the mother's report of a history of inconsolable crying lasting several hours each day.
  • (12) He’s not that kind of character [to be inconsolable]: he’s strong mentally and resolute when it comes to errors.
  • (13) The committee found that the evidence indicates a causal relation between DTP vaccine and anaphylaxis and between the pertussis component of DTP vaccine and extended periods of inconsolable crying or screaming.
  • (14) was Ally Carnwath’s take James Blake – Overgrown The London producer with the voice like a bruise remains perennially inconsolable here.
  • (15) He remained inconsolable and silent throughout, a lonely man in a crowded room.
  • (16) The collective narrative of the moment seemed to demand that Mandela look stricken, inconsolable – and mortal.
  • (17) The following is a case report of an infant who presented with inconsolable crying caused by a corneal abrasion.
  • (18) According to Collins German dictionary, the word means "hopeless, miserable, wretched or inconsolable" First it was the might of the emerging economic superpowers, Brazil and China.
  • (19) On Monday night on Sky News, Paul Murray was inconsolable.
  • (20) Yet the man in the dock was evidently inconsolable.

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