disheartened

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disheartened

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From the verb hearten.

adjective more disheartened · most disheartened

Discouraged, despairing. He refused to get disheartened, even when all 50 writers polled by Newsweek predicted he would lose.
Similar: dejected, dispirited, down in the mouth, sad, down in the dumps, downhearted, atrabiliary, atrabilious, blitheless, blue, bummed out, chapfallen

verb

participle, past simple past and past participle of dishearten

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@misc{disheartened_2026,
  title = {disheartened},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/disheartened},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}