Definition of Dispiriting

1. Adjective. Destructive of morale and self-reliance.


Definition of Dispiriting

1. Adjective. Lowering the morale of; making despondent or depressive; disheartening. ¹

2. Verb. (present participle of ''dispirit'') ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Dispiriting

1. dispirit [v] - See also: dispirit

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dispiriting

dispersive
dispersive model
dispersively
dispersiveness
dispersivities
dispersivity
dispersoid
dispersoids
disphenoid
disphenoids
dispireme
dispirit
dispirited
dispiritedly
dispiritedness
dispiriting (current term)
dispiritingly
dispiritment
dispiritments
dispirits
dispise
dispised
dispises
dispising
dispiteous
dispiteously
dispiteousness
displace
displaceability
displaceable

Literary usage of Dispiriting

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Theological and Literary Journal (1851)
"... of the church experience has not yet taught us, but it seems manifest to us, th.it the effect would be dispiriting and disastrous in the extreme. ..."

2. Memoirs of Charles Mathews, Comedian by Mathews (Anne Jackson) (1839)
"dispiriting treatment.—111 health.—Emery's departure to fulfil his engagement at Covent Garden Theatre.—Mr. Mathews's letter introducing him to Mr. ..."

3. An Outline of the Various Social Systems and Communities which Have Been by Mary Hennell (1844)
"In this melancholy, dispiriting conclusion must we indeed rest ? Or rather shall we not, in the words of Fourier's disciple, reply—"For ourselves, ..."

4. The Beauties of Ireland: Being Original Delineations, Topographical by James Norris Brewer (1826)
"... which rises in lonely majesty amid this flat and dispiriting, but thickly-populated, tract of country, is of great height and circumference, and is, ..."

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