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adjective

as in disheartened

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verb

past tense of dispirit
as in discouraged
to lessen the courage or confidence of dispirited by the overwhelming amount of information needed to write the report

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Recent Examples of dispirited
Adjective
On the Republican side in the Senate race, former Illinois GOP Chair Don Tracy spent the day knocking on doors in his hometown of Springfield alongside his 10-year-old grandson Charles, urging dispirited conservative voters to turn out Tuesday. — Dan Petrella, Chicago Tribune, 15 Mar. 2026 Immediately, a dispirited city administration came to life, with particular focus on quality-of-life issues affecting residents and visitors. — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 7 Jan. 2026 People should be more excited and less dispirited about artificial intelligence, according to billionaire Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. — Ashton Jackson, CNBC, 17 Oct. 2025 Another resident, Matt Fontenot, described a dispirited town that spent the week on edge. — Alexandra Koch , Peter D'abrosca, FOXNews.com, 8 Aug. 2025
Verb
Purists and fans were dispirited; this 650 hp engine had its own fan base for its throaty power and engineering marvel. — Scotty Reiss, Forbes.com, 16 May 2026 After their excellent but somewhat overlooked 2023 album 3D Country — which occasionally evokes the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion — the band was feeling dispirited. — Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 8 Mar. 2026 Destitute and dispirited, the family soon joined relatives in Durban on South Africa’s east coast. — Edgar Thompson, The Orlando Sentinel, 1 Mar. 2026 Jett, her veteran superstar, is getting old; the other players are dispirited. — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 9 Feb. 2026 Trump ends the year weak and unpopular, his coalition dispirited and riven by infighting. — Michelle Goldberg, Mercury News, 30 Dec. 2025 Mirthless Minnesota Vikings fans eager for a change at quarterback or playcaller may be further dispirited by head coach Kevin O'Connell's messaging. — Anthony Bettin, CBS News, 18 Nov. 2025 Were Manso and the other sports staffers dispirited by the loss of ABC programming? — Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 7 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dispirited
  1. disheartened
  2. discouraged
  3. dejected
  4. frustrated
  5. disappointed
  6. depressed
  7. abject
  8. unhappy
Adjective
  • And whose heart didn’t swell with pride when the disheartened Malinin immediately pulled himself together to congratulate Mikhail Shaidorov of Kazakhstan, who skated away with the top honors?
    — Donna Vickroy, Chicago Tribune, 20 Feb. 2026
Definition of disheartened
Verb
  • They were not just discouraged by the unfortunate results, the pair noted in their YouTube post.
    — Zoey Lyttle, PEOPLE, 7 July 2026
  • If that sounds statistically far-fetched, do not be discouraged.
    — Sarah Hutto, New Yorker, 7 July 2026
Definition of discouraged
Adjective
  • The sea of yellow applauding the efforts of the dejected Brazilian players who milled about, seemingly unwilling to accept that a match that took so long to really get going was over so quickly.
    — Hannah Keyser, CNN Money, 5 July 2026
  • Reactions both delirious and dejected have become a staple on national and global soccer telecasts.
    — Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 3 July 2026
Definition of dejected
Verb
  • Manny Machado was frustrated with questions from the start last night.
    — Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 July 2026
  • Reportedly, Meghan is frustrated that Harry keeps giving chances to his family to hurt him.
    — Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 7 July 2026
Definition of frustrated
Adjective
  • Some disappointed fans lingered near the barricades and boundaries police had set up and were enforcing.
    — Meriam Bouarrouj, NBC news, 4 July 2026
  • Given their expectations entering the day, Netcompany-INEOS will be deeply disappointed with Kevin Vauquelin’s puncture, their French leader having enjoyed such an impressive Tour last year.
    — Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 4 July 2026
Definition of disappointed
Adjective
  • The pseudonymous title character, a depressed, drunken, belligerent twenty-six-year-old advice columnist, has no real hardships of his own and is cursed by doubt.
    — Hannah Jocelyn, New Yorker, 1 July 2026
  • Supergirl is a story about a depressed, super-powered woman who is pulled out of her bar-hopping to help other people and find her purpose.
    — Tiffany Kelly, Entertainment Weekly, 30 June 2026
Definition of depressed
Adjective
  • How else to explain the abject failure of the Social Media Minimum Age Act?
    — John Tamny, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
  • The 2026 season has been an abject disaster, the sort that was more common under the previous ownership.
    — Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 26 June 2026
Definition of abject
Adjective
  • Last year, researchers at Harvard University and Baylor University discovered that, on average, young adults aged between 18 to 29 are deeply unhappy.
    — Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 9 July 2026
  • Licensed cannabis operators in states that have legalized marijuana tend to support the ban—they’re unhappy that hemp intoxicants face far less regulation and taxation than their products.
    — Peter Su, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026
Definition of unhappy

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