Dispirited
[dɪ'spɪrɪtɪd]
Definition
(adj.) marked by low spirits; showing no enthusiasm; 'a dispirited and divided Party'; 'reacted to the crisis with listless resignation' .
Edited by Dinah--From WordNet
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Dispirit
(a.) Depressed in spirits; disheartened; daunted.
Editor: Val
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Dejected, disheartened, depressed, discouraged, down-hearted, downcast, despondent, cast down, crest-fallen, chap-fallen, down in the mouth.
Checker: Nathan
Examples
- We retired from the debate which had followed on his nomination: we, his nominators, mortified; he dispirited to excess. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- And Birkin, who, for some reason was now tired and dispirited, said to him: 'I always feel doomed when the train is running into London. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Herbert, coming to my bedside when he came in,--for I went straight to bed, dispirited and fatigued,--made the same report. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Slowly the weary, dispirited creatures, wound their way into the room, and, with crouching reluctance, presented their baskets to be weighed. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Ginevra lived her full life in a ball-room; elsewhere she drooped dispirited. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- For some time all the energies of the Prophet were concentrated upon rallying his followers, who were evidently much dispirited. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Her mind was so much weakened that she still fancied present exertion impossible, and therefore it only dispirited her more. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- I was not dispirited now. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
Checker: Nathan