Dishearten
[dɪs'hɑːt(ə)n]
Definition
(v. t.) To discourage; to deprive of courage and hope; to depress the spirits of; to deject.
Checker: Roland
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Dispirit, discourage, deject, depress.
Typist: Rex
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See ENCOURAGE]
Typist: Rodger
Definition
v.t. to deprive of heart courage or spirits: to discourage: to depress.—adjs. Disheart′ened; Disheart′ening.
Editor: Priscilla
Examples
- Margaret heard enough of this unreasonableness to dishearten her; and when they came away she found it impossible to cheer her father. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Don't say that and dishearten me. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- His partner, however, became disheartened by the obstacles thrown in their way, and left this country for America before the success of the screw was established. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- When he had 'worked round,' as he called it, to Paris in his pilgrimage, and had wholly failed in it so far, he was not disheartened. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- She was disheartened by Lady Bertram's silence, awed by Sir Thomas's grave looks, and quite overcome by Mrs. Norris's admonitions. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- I noted down these particulars in my pocket-book, feeling as I did so both doubtful and disheartened about my next proceedings. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Though the workmen were now growing more weary and disheartened with each new volume they undertook, Gutenberg would not give up. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- I try to persuade myself that it is so, because I am anxious not to be disheartened already about the future. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- In turn they became disheartened, and would have been glad to submit without compromise. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The dangers and hair-breadth escapes of a life of adventures, instead of disheartening young people, seem frequently to recommend a trade to them. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- I felt the truth--the disheartening truth--of those words. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Yet there is nothing strange or particularly disheartening about this commonplace observation: to expect anything else is to hope that a nation will lift itself by its own bootstraps. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- It was very hard; very hard; lonely and disheartening. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- A third and fourth friend in the vicinity was appealed to with the same disheartening reply of a story of wholesale spoliation. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The same dense, disheartening obscurity hangs over the fate and fortunes of Anne Catherick, and her companion, Mrs. Clements. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- This friend, I pursued, is trying to get on in commercial life, but has no money, and finds it difficult and disheartening to make a beginning. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
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