Disheartening
adj, verb
adj, verb ·4 syllables ·Uncommon ·College level
Definitions
Verb
- 1 present participle and gerund of dishearten form-of, gerund, participle, present
Adjective
- 1 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."
Adjective
- 1 destructive of morale and self-reliance wordnet
Example
More examples"The recrudescence of his old complaint was disheartening."