Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Affected or marked by low spirits; dejected. synonym: depressed.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Indicating depression of spirits; discouraged; dejected.
- Spiritless; tame; wanting vigor: as, a poor, dispirited style.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Depressed in spirits; deprived of cheer or enthusiasm; disheartened; discouraged; daunted.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
dispirit . - adjective Without energy, gusto or drive,
enervated , without the will to accomplish,disheartened .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective filled with melancholy and despondency
- adjective marked by low spirits; showing no enthusiasm
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Examples
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All who went out, returned back dispirited from the vain and weary search, and even the most sanguine began to grow sick at heart.
Parables From Nature 1857
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The "dispirited" part is an obvious gaffe, but it seems that it's entirely possible to be a "conservative liberal," depending on what you mean by those terms.
My campaign will be dispirited, because I'm a proud conservative liberal... Ann Althouse 2008
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Everyone was tired and worried and the rubberneckers were making them feel "dispirited", he said.
Stuff.co.nz - Stuff The Press 2010
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According to a "dispirited" WikiLeaks activist, the group's "secrecy and compartmentalization are apparently hindering its operations," since only
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The Daily Telegraph said Capello desperately needs to shake up his team to get the best out of players like Frank Lampard and a "dispirited" Rooney before the final group C game with Slovenia.
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He said that hundreds of Hamas's fighters has been killed and the mood was 'dispirited', with Hamas launching fewer than 30 rockets a day compared with 70 or 80 when the war started.
Home | Mail Online 2009
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Even a flagging campaign can be presented as evidence of McCain's fundamental goodness; noting that McCain seemed "dispirited" in early 2007, Newsweek offered, "It may be because he is not, at heart, a politician.
David Brock and Paul Waldman: Excerpt from Free Ride: John McCain and the Media 2008
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a "prolonged period" and said businesses are "dispirited" by tax and regulatory changes.
FXstreet.com 2010
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You can embrace your fears and become a timid, dispirited, wounded person for years—perhaps for a lifetime—or you can reject your dread and believe what God has said to be true.
Recovering From Religious Abuse Jack Watts 2011
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I tried to start an office lacrosse pool, but everyone was too dispirited to participate.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Sex Discrimination in Child Naming Law 2010
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