disheartened

English

Adjective

disheartened (comparative more disheartened, superlative most disheartened)

Discouraged, despairing.
- 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.

Synonyms

dejected, dispirited, down in the mouth, sad, down in the dumps

Derived terms

disheartenedly

Verb

disheartened

simple past tense and past participle of dishearten

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