Meanings
comparative more disheartening · superlative 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.
1958 February 28, Michael Robbins, “Railways and Politics in East Cornwall”, in Railway Magazine, page 127Synonyms: discouraging, demotivating, demoralizing, despiriting, disappointing, discouraging, dispiriting · Antonyms: heartening
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of dishearten
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveCausing a person to lose heart; making despondent or gloomy.
More synonyms by meaning
adjectivedestructive of morale and self-reliance
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Translations
Finnish lannistava
- lannistavaadjective
French démoralisant
- démoralisantadjective
Polish przygnębiający, zniechęcający
- przygnębiającyadjective
- zniechęcającyadjective
Portuguese desanimador
- desanimadoradjective
Spanish descorazonador, descorazonante
- descorazonadoradjective
- descorazonanteadjective
Cite this entry
disheartening. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/disheartening
“disheartening.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/disheartening. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “disheartening,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/disheartening.
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