Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to despond
Participle: desponded
Gerund: desponding
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | despond |
| you | despond |
| he;she;it | desponds |
| we | despond |
| you | despond |
| they | despond |
Perfect
| I | have desponded |
| you | have desponded |
| he;she;it | has desponded |
| we | have desponded |
| you | have desponded |
| they | have desponded |
Past
| I | desponded |
| you | desponded |
| he;she;it | desponded |
| we | desponded |
| you | desponded |
| they | desponded |
Pluperfect
| I | had desponded |
| you | had desponded |
| he;she;it | had desponded |
| we | had desponded |
| you | had desponded |
| they | had desponded |
Future
| I | will despond |
| you | will despond |
| he;she;it | will despond |
| we | will despond |
| you | will despond |
| they | will despond |
Future Perfect
| I | will have desponded |
| you | will have desponded |
| he;she;it | will have desponded |
| we | will have desponded |
| you | will have desponded |
| they | will have desponded |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | despond |
| you | despond |
| he;she;it | despond |
| we | despond |
| you | despond |
| they | despond |
Perfect
| I | have desponded |
| you | have desponded |
| he;she;it | have desponded |
| we | have desponded |
| you | have desponded |
| they | have desponded |
Imperfect
| I | desponded |
| you | desponded |
| he;she;it | desponded |
| we | desponded |
| you | desponded |
| they | desponded |
Pluperfect
| I | had desponded |
| you | had desponded |
| he;she;it | had desponded |
| we | had desponded |
| you | had desponded |
| they | had desponded |
Conditional
Present
| I | would despond |
| you | would despond |
| he;she;it | would despond |
| we | would despond |
| you | would despond |
| they | would despond |
Perfect
| I | would have desponded |
| you | would have desponded |
| he;she;it | would have desponded |
| we | would have desponded |
| you | would have desponded |
| they | would have desponded |
Imperative
| you | despond |
| we | Let's despond |
| you | despond |
Verbs conjugated like 'despond'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'despond'
despend,
respond,
bespend,
debond,
depend,
depone,
desand,
descend,
despeed,
despine,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Latin dēspondeō (“give up, abandon”), from dē (“from”) + spondeō (“promise”).
Sample Sentences
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[...] that they press into their service the outward imagining. Who shall measure what an all-pervading Spirit may do with these capabilities of our mortality, or the ways in which He may encourage the desponding souls of the desolate ? If the poor forgotten slave believes that Jesus hath appeared and spoken to him, who shall contradict him ? Did He not say that his mission, in all ages, was to bind up the [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)