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dispirited

[ dih-spir-i-tid ]

adjective

  1. discouraged; dejected; disheartened; gloomy.


dispirited

/ dɪˈspɪrɪtɪd /

adjective

  1. low in spirit or enthusiasm; downhearted or depressed; discouraged
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Derived Forms

  • disˈpiritedness, noun
  • disˈpiritedly, adverb
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Other Words From

  • dis·pirit·ed·ly adverb
  • dis·pirit·ed·ness noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of dispirited1

First recorded in 1640–50; dispirit + -ed 2
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Example Sentences

I have dipped in and out when I can afford to feel angry or dispirited.

Even partisans locked into their choices were probably dispirited at what they were witnessing.

Only two years ago, with awful economic numbers and a dispirited opposition, he was riding high.

Cameras panning to American fans showed dispirited faces, furrowed brows.

While fans of snubbed teams will be furious, or dispirited, or both, Wellman will crush in the aftermath of Tourney selection.

Such efforts have reenergized a movement that seemed, until recently, to be dispirited.

It is a measure of just how dispirited the Democratic base is that its members were not sure that Obama had even this much in him.

He acted dejected and dispirited, and if he could have talked would have asked the meaning of it all.

Full of fears, anxiety, and mistrust, it was a very dispirited Rabecque that now slowly followed Monsieur Gaubert into the inn.

He was now evidently exhausted by toil, and dispirited by disappointment.

I can hardly say why I have written this incoherent note; except, that I am dispirited, and thirst to talk to you.

To a lost wanderer, and especially to a dispirited woman, such magnitude was not sublime, but terrifying.

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