Hyphenation of despondent

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word despondent? This word can be hyphenated and contains 3 syllables as shown below.

de-spon-dent

Definitions of despondent:

1.	Without or almost without hope Despondent about his failure Too heartsick to fight back

Synonyms of despondent:

adj	heartsick, hopeless

Last hyphenations of this language

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Hyphenator

The hyphen is a punctuation mark used to join words and to separate syllables of a single word. The use of hyphens is called hyphenation. The hyphen should not be confused with dashes, which are longer and have different uses, or with the minus sign, which is also longer in some contexts. Some words can be hyphenated in different places and you can use this website to find out where. Also reffered to as syllable counter and divider.