Despondency
Crossword Clue and Answers
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Publications
- Evening Standard Quick Crossword - Friday, 18 Jun 2021
- Evening Standard Quick Crossword - Friday, 1 Jan 2021
Crossword Answers
3 letters
WOE
Intense mournfulness
5 letters
GLOOM
A feeling of melancholy apprehension
GRIEF
Something that causes great unhappiness; "her death was a great grief to John"
SLOTH
Apathy and inactivity in the practice of virtue (personified as one of the deadly sins)
CROSS
(genetics) the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids
6 letters
APATHY
An absence of emotion or enthusiasm
DOWNER
A drug that reduces excitability and calms a person
MISERY
A feeling of intense unhappiness; "she was exhausted by her misery and grief"
ACEDIA
Apathy and inactivity in the practice of virtue (personified as one of the deadly sins)
7 letters
SADNESS
The quality of excessive mournfulness and uncheerfulness
MALAISE
Physical discomfort (as mild sickness or depression)
LOWNESS
A low or small degree of any quality (amount or force or temperature etc.); "he took advantage of the lowness of interest rates"
DESPAIR
A state in which all hope is lost or absent; "in the depths of despair"; "they were rescued from despair at the last minute"; "courage born of desperation"
8 letters
MOURNING
The passionate and demonstrative activity of expressing grief
THEBLUES
9 letters
DEJECTION
A state of melancholy depression
PESSIMISM
A general disposition to look on the dark side and to expect the worst in all things
DEATHWISH
(psychoanalysis) an unconscious urge to die
10 letters
OPPRESSION
The act of subjugating by cruelty; "the tyrant's oppression of the people"
MELANCHOLY
A humor that was once believed to be secreted by the kidneys or spleen and to cause sadness and melancholy
LOWSPIRITS
A state of mild depression
DEPRESSION
Pushing down; "depression of the space bar on the typewriter"
11 letters
PROSTRATION
The act of assuming a prostrate position
FORLORNNESS
Sadness resulting from being forsaken or abandoned
DESPONDENCY
Feeling downcast and disheartened and hopeless
DESPERATION
Desperate recklessness; "it was a policy of desperation"
DESPONDENCE
Feeling downcast and disheartened and hopeless
12 letters
DEJECTEDNESS
A feeling of low spirits; "he felt responsible for her lowness of spirits"
WRETCHEDNESS
The quality of being poor and inferior and sorry; "he has compiled a record second to none in its wretchedness"
HOPELESSNESS
The despair you feel when you have abandoned hope of comfort or success
13 letters
CHEERLESSNESS
A feeling of dreary or pessimistic sadness
MISERABLENESS
A state of ill-being due to affliction or misfortune; "the misery and wretchedness of those slums is intolerable"
HEARTSICKNESS
Feeling downcast and disheartened and hopeless
HEARTLESSNESS
An absence of concern for the welfare of others
14 letters
SPIRITLESSNESS
The trait of lacking enthusiasm for or interest in things generally
DISPIRITEDNESS
A feeling of low spirits; "he felt responsible for her lowness of spirits"
DISHEARTENMENT
A communication that leaves you disheartened or daunted
DISCOURAGEMENT
The expression of opposition and disapproval
15 letters
SLOUGHOFDESPOND
(formal) extreme depression
DOWNHEARTEDNESS
A feeling of low spirits; "he felt responsible for her lowness of spirits"
16 letters
DISCONSOLATENESS
Feeling downcast and disheartened and hopeless