To give up the will, courage, or spirit; to be thoroughly disheartened; to lose all courage; to become dispirited or depressed; to take an unhopeful view
If you are despondent, you are very unhappy because you have been experiencing difficulties that you think you will not be able to overcome. I feel despondent when my work is rejected. + despondently de·spond·ent·ly Despondently, I went back and told Bill the news. extremely unhappy and without hope (despondere , from spondere )