disheartening

English

Adjective

disheartening (comparative more disheartening, superlative most disheartening)

1. Causing a person to lose heart; making despondent or gloomy.

   Synonyms: discouraging; see also Thesaurus:disheartening

   Antonym: heartening

   • 1958 February, Michael Robbins, “Railways and Politics in East Cornwall”, in Railway Magazine, page 127:

     After this, with the disheartening failures after the Railway Mania, railway projection in east Cornwall went to sleep.

Derived terms

• dishearteningly

Translations

Translations

• Finnish: lannistava (fi)
• French: démoralisant (fr)
• Polish: przygnębiający (pl), zniechęcający
• Portuguese: desanimador
• Spanish: descorazonador (es)

Verb

disheartening

1. present participle and gerund of dishearten