Verbiage - June 1, 2011
Wednesday, June 1, 2011 at 11:00AM
Rob Dean in Arrested Development, Despondent, Verbiage
Today's word of the day is
Despondent
:
de·spond·ent
–adjective
feeling or showing profound hopelessness, dejection, discouragement, or gloom:
despondent about failing health.
.\
Origin:
1690–1700;
<
Latin
dēspondent-
(stem
of
dēspondēns
),
present
participle
of
dēspondēre.
See
despond
,
-ent
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