disheartening
disheartening adjective: causing a person to lose heart; making despondent or gloomy. Also the present participle and gerund of dishearten.
Adjective
disheartening (comparative more disheartening, superlative most disheartening)
- Causing a person to lose heart; making despondent or gloomy.
- After this, with the disheartening failures after the Railway Mania, railway projection in east Cornwall went to sleep.1958 February, Michael Robbins, “Railways and Politics in East Cornwall”, in Railway Magazine, page 127
- Synonyms:
- discouraging, demotivating, demoralizing, despiriting, disappointing, dispiriting
- Antonyms:
- heartening
Also used as
disheartening is also the present participle and gerund of dishearten.
Synonyms of disheartening
Antonyms
Forms of disheartening
| comparative | more disheartening |
|---|---|
| superlative | most disheartening |
Words formed from disheartening
Questions about disheartening
- What does disheartening mean?
- Disheartening means causing a person to lose heart; making despondent or gloomy.
- What part of speech is disheartening?
- Disheartening is an adjective.
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