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DISHEARTENING
demoralizing, demoralising, disheartening, dispiriting
(adjective) destructive of morale and self-reliance
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Adjective
disheartening (comparative more disheartening, superlative most disheartening)
Causing a person to lose heart; making despondent or gloomy.
Synonyms: discouraging, Thesaurus:disheartening
Antonym: heartening
Verb
disheartening
present participle of dishearten
Source: Wiktionary
DISHEARTEN
Dis*heart"en, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Disheartened; p. pr. & vb. n. Disheartening.] Etym: [Pref. dis- + hearten.]
Definition: To discourage; to deprive of courage and hope; to depress the spirits of; to deject. Regiments . . . utterly disorganized and disheartened. Macaulay.
Syn.
– To dispirit; discourage; depress; deject; deter; terrify.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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