disheartened

English

Pronunciation

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Adjective

disheartened (comparative more disheartened, superlative most disheartened)

1. Discouraged, despairing.

   Synonyms: dejected, dispirited, down in the mouth, sad, down in the dumps, downhearted; see also Thesaurus:sad

   • 2004, Chris Wallace, Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage:

     He refused to get disheartened, even when all 50 writers polled by Newsweek predicted he would lose.

Derived terms

• disheartenedly
• undisheartened

Translations

discouraged

• Greek:

  Ancient Greek: δύσθυμος (dústhumos)

• Irish: scíth

Verb

disheartened

1. simple past and past participle of dishearten