Dispirited
adjective
Feeling very unhappy, sad, or without hope.
After losing the game, the team felt dispirited and didn't have the energy to practice.
Often appears as...
- feel dispirited
- look dispirited
adjective
Feeling very unhappy, sad, or without hope.
After losing the game, the team felt dispirited and didn't have the energy to practice.
Often appears as...
- feel dispirited
- look dispirited
Definition 1 of 1
Pro Tip 1/3Emotional Depth
Describes a deep feeling of being discouraged or having low spirits.
She felt dispirited after her project was criticized heavily.
Pro Tip 2/3Temporary State
Often indicates a temporary feeling that might change with new circumstances.
The actor was dispirited by the reviews but vowed to improve.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Clinical
Avoid using 'dispirited' to describe clinical depression, it’s for non-clinical sadness.
He was merely dispirited by the weather, not depressed.
Pro Tip 1/3Emotional Depth
Describes a deep feeling of being discouraged or having low spirits.
She felt dispirited after her project was criticized heavily.
Pro Tip 2/3Temporary State
Often indicates a temporary feeling that might change with new circumstances.
The actor was dispirited by the reviews but vowed to improve.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Clinical
Avoid using 'dispirited' to describe clinical depression, it’s for non-clinical sadness.
He was merely dispirited by the weather, not depressed.
Pro Tip 1/3Emotional Depth
Describes a deep feeling of being discouraged or having low spirits.
She felt dispirited after her project was criticized heavily.
Pro Tip 2/3Temporary State
Often indicates a temporary feeling that might change with new circumstances.
The actor was dispirited by the reviews but vowed to improve.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Clinical
Avoid using 'dispirited' to describe clinical depression, it’s for non-clinical sadness.
He was merely dispirited by the weather, not depressed.
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Video examples
The myth of Narcissus...
From then on, Echo could no longer enrapture listeners with her stories; she could only repeat the last words another said. As her conversations became dull and her company undesirable, Echo grew dispirited. One day, while Echo was drifting through the woods,
Video examples
The myth of Narcissus...
From then on, Echo could no longer enrapture listeners with her stories; she could only repeat the last words another said. As her conversations became dull and her company undesirable, Echo grew dispirited. One day, while Echo was drifting through the woods,
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Quote examples
Bobby Sands
Irish Activist
I am (even after all the torture) amazed at British logic. Never in eight centuries have they succeeded in breaking the spirit of one man who refused to be broken. They have not dispirited, conquered, nor demoralised my people, nor will they ever.
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George Will
Journalist
The euro pleases dispirited people for whom European history is not Chartres and Shakespeare but the Holocaust and the Somme. The euro expresses cultural despair.
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Eric Alterman
American Writer
Obama, like Carter, is reacting to warning signs by seeking to split the difference between dispirited Democrats and increasingly radicalized Republicans.
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Patrick Lencioni
American Writer
Empty values statements create cynical and dispirited employees, alienate customers, and undermine managerial credibility.
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Frances Hesselbein
American Businessman
Dispirited, unmotivated, unappreciated workers cannot compete in a highly competitive world.
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Jill Abramson
American Editor
The times I didn't get jobs I wanted, I remember feeling dispirited - really crestfallen.
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Shriya Saran
Indian Actress
Enemies are dispirited when they see you happy. They know their purpose can be thwarted.
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Bobby Sands
Irish Activist
I am (even after all the torture) amazed at British logic. Never in eight centuries have they succeeded in breaking the spirit of one man who refused to be broken. They have not dispirited, conquered, nor demoralised my people, nor will they ever.
Quote examples
George Will
Journalist
The euro pleases dispirited people for whom European history is not Chartres and Shakespeare but the Holocaust and the Somme. The euro expresses cultural despair.
Quote examples
Eric Alterman
American Writer
Obama, like Carter, is reacting to warning signs by seeking to split the difference between dispirited Democrats and increasingly radicalized Republicans.
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Patrick Lencioni
American Writer
Empty values statements create cynical and dispirited employees, alienate customers, and undermine managerial credibility.
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Frances Hesselbein
American Businessman
Dispirited, unmotivated, unappreciated workers cannot compete in a highly competitive world.
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Jill Abramson
American Editor
The times I didn't get jobs I wanted, I remember feeling dispirited - really crestfallen.
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Shriya Saran
Indian Actress
Enemies are dispirited when they see you happy. They know their purpose can be thwarted.
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