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Definition of Dispirited
1. Adjective. Marked by low spirits; showing no enthusiasm. "Reacted to the crisis with listless resignation"
2. Adjective. Filled with melancholy and despondency. "Feeling discouraged and downhearted"
Similar to: Dejected
Derivative terms: Dispiritedness, Downheartedness, Gloominess, Gloominess, Lowness, Low-spiritedness
Definition of Dispirited
1. a. Depressed in spirits; disheartened; daunted.
Definition of Dispirited
1. Verb. (past of dispirit) ¹
2. Adjective. Without energy, gusto or drive, enervated, without the will to accomplish, disheartened. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Dispirited
1. dispirit [v] - See also: dispirit
Medical Definition of Dispirited
1. Depressed in spirits; disheartened; daunted. Dispir"itedly, Dispir"ited. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dispirited
Literary usage of Dispirited
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Across Africa by Verney Lovett Cameron, Daniel Oliver (1877)
"The distance was not great, but the time occupied was dreadfully long, and on
arriving at our camping - place the men were too dispirited to hut themselves ..."
2. Southern History of the War: The First Year of the War by Edward Alfred Pollard (1864)
"Why the North was not easily dispirited.—The War as a Money Job.—Note: Gen.
Washington's Opinion of New England.—The Yankee Finances. ..."
3. History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain by William Hickling Prescott (1883)
"thinned by disease, the Moslem troops grew sullen and dispirited; and now that
the bastion of Castile, with its dilapidated works, stood like some warrior ..."
4. History of the War in the Peninsula and in the South of France: From the by William Francis Patrick Napier (1842)
"... and the besieged are repulsed—The Cosso passed—Fresh mines worked under the
university, and in six other places—French soldiers dispirited— ..."
5. The Writings of George Washington by George Washington (1889)
"... have been productive of some inconveniences, the troops having become in some
measure dispirited by these successive retreats, which, I presume, ..."
6. History of the Indian Mutiny, 1857-1858: Commencing from the Close of the by George Bruce Malleson (1878)
"Similar attacks, though in less force, were made The assail- the same day at
other points, but they were all dispirited repulsed. The 5th of September was, ..."
7. Studies of a Biographer by Leslie Stephen (1902)
"In a world so full of evil 'one dank and dispirited word' is harmful, and it is
the business of art to present gay and bright pictures which may send the ..."
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