disheartened

English

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Adjective

disheartened (comparative more disheartened, superlative most disheartened)

  1. Discouraged, despairing.
    Synonyms: dejected, dispirited, down in the mouth, sad, down in the dumps, downhearted; see also Thesaurus:sad
    • 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.

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Verb

disheartened

  1. simple past and past participle of dishearten
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