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DISPIRITING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does dispiriting mean?
• DISPIRITING (adjective)
The adjective DISPIRITING has 1 sense:
1. destructive of morale and self-reliance
Familiarity information: DISPIRITING used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Destructive of morale and self-reliance
Synonyms:
demoralising; demoralizing; disheartening; dispiriting
Similar:
discouraging (depriving of confidence or hope or enthusiasm and hence often deterring action)
Context examples
And it was such dispiriting effort.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
She stopt to blush and laugh at her own relapse, and then resumed a more serious, more dispiriting cogitation upon what had been, and might be, and must be.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
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