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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