disheartening

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disheartening

adjective more disheartening · most disheartening

Causing a person to lose heart; making despondent or gloomy. After this, with the disheartening failures after the Railway Mania, railway projection in east Cornwall went to sleep.
Similar: discouraging, demotivating, demoralizing, despiriting, disappointing, disheartening, dispiriting · Opposite: heartening

verb

gerund, participle, present present participle and gerund of dishearten

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Español	descorazonador, descorazonante
Português	desanimador
Français	démoralisant

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@misc{disheartening_2026,
  title = {disheartening},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/disheartening},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}