disheartened
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4.2
- adjective
- /dɪsˈhɑːrtənd/
- As the disheartened fans dispersed from the bar, their reactions varied.
- feel disheartened
- very disheartened
- so disheartened
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Watch on YouTubeAnd when you see your hope being dashed, people get disheartened.
- And when you see your hope being dashed, people get disheartened.
- OK, from Belle Rumi on Facebook, I feel overwhelmingly disheartened by humanity.
- Your uterus has to shrink right back down, so don't be disheartened.
- What I do know is that I was real disheartened by women's response to Adele.
- I'm a bit disheartened by, you know, in the movies the there's always extreme competence from the government.
- But then where I was so disheartened was there was a a regime change at the at HBO and the new people came in and they were like, we don't get you.
- So this wee guy was the ringleader and he says wee guy looked quite, you know, he was a bit disheartened and he said my uncles are in jail for it.
- What I'm disheartened by Internet culture, like the negative side is people don't put a lot of effort in their tear downs.
- And you know, I know that you had AI think you were disheartened by what you didn't see your audience do for you.
Examples
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But I am a little disheartened by what I'm seeing with this, with the graph and the number of cases.
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Rootless and disheartened, he had enrolled in law school at Boalt Hall in Berkeley.
Fiction book (1999) -
Also, I was very disheartened to see not one bit of technology.
Blog text (17) -
I supported him since he announced and was greatly disheartened when he dropped out.
Blog text (16) -
And this just leaves me feeling disheartened and not confident.
Blog text (29) -
I'm just feeling so disheartened and flat today.
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You were the revolutionary spark that united a disheartened liberal nation and gave us hope again.
Blog text (33) -
The swelling on her face had gone down some, but she looked lifeless and disheartened.
Fiction book (1996) -
Calipari said in a statement at the time that he was "very disappointed and disheartened by the NCAA's findings."
Blog text (8) -
After hearing the bad news, she felt disheartened and lost all motivation to continue.
Synonyms
683
1.0
Unhappy because something you hoped for did not happen
224
6.7
Feeling sad or unhappy
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7.5
Feeling sad or disappointed about something
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3.4
Feeling less confident and hopeful because of problems
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5.5
No longer believing that something is good or true after being disappointed
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4.3
Feeling shocked and disappointed when something unexpected happens
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7.7
Feeling very sad and without hope about the future
15
5.2
Feeling sad and lacking confidence to keep trying
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4.5
Feeling very sad and not hopeful
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4.6
Feeling less confident and hopeful after a disappointment
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8.2
Extremely disappointed and upset after something goes wrong
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5.4
Feeling sad and without hope
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7.5
Sad and disappointed because what you hoped for did not happen
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4.7
Feeling sad and without much hope
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4.1
Feeling sad and without much hope
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3.9
Feeling sad and without energy
Antonyms
How Discouraged
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7.7
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5.2
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4.2
67
3.4
683
1.0
- Informal
224
6.7
Surface Forms
Morphology
disheartened = dishearten (semi-transparent) = dis + heart + en + ed
The adjective is a regular participial form built from the verb 'dishearten' with '-ed'.
Etymology
Disheartened comes from dis- meaning 'not' and hearten, which means to give someone 'heart' or 'courage'. So to be disheartened is to have 'lost heart', to feel discouraged and without hope.