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Post: 89253237_1 created on Thu, 05 Dec 2013 02:18:49 +0000
Posted: Thu, 05 Dec 2013 02:18:49 +0000

Did I use this word correctly in my sentence?

"...schedules and are despondent to meet with standards they have put upon themselves"

If not, I'm trying to look for a synonym to 'desperate'.

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Post: 89253237_2 created on Thu, 05 Dec 2013 03:52:48 +0000
Posted: Thu, 05 Dec 2013 03:52:48 +0000

Could you include the entirety of the sentences? It seems awkward out of context? Also, despondent is a synonym for depressed or forlorn. It doesn't mean the same thing as desperate.

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Post: 89253237_3 created on Thu, 05 Dec 2013 07:12:14 +0000
Posted: Thu, 05 Dec 2013 07:12:14 +0000

Yeah, the context is a little confusing. Why don't you like desperate?

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Post: 89253237_4 created on Fri, 06 Dec 2013 09:55:26 +0000
Posted: Fri, 06 Dec 2013 09:55:26 +0000

It might be the lack of context, but while you may have used despondent correctly, it sounds really, really weird, and it does have a bizarre implication here.

And despondent is not a synonym for desperate. That's the danger of thesauruses: if you don't know the meanings and connotations of the words listed, you're probably making your writing worse by subbing different words in (because they will invariably give your words a meaning you didn't intend).

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