disheartenment (noun)

  • 1disheartenment — noun see dishearten …

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  • 2disheartenment — noun a) The act of disheartening. b) The state of being disheartened; dejection …

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  • 3disheartenment — noun 1. the feeling of despair in the face of obstacles • Syn: ↑discouragement, ↑dismay • Derivationally related forms: ↑dismay (for: ↑dismay), ↑dishearten, ↑discourage …

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  • 4dishearten — transitive verb Date: 1590 to cause to lose spirit or morale • dishearteningly adverb • disheartenment noun …

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  • 5dishearten — verb cause to lose determination or confidence. Derivatives disheartening adjective dishearteningly adverb disheartenment noun …

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  • 6dishearten — /dɪsˈhatn / (say dis hahtn) verb (t) to depress the spirits of; discourage. –disheartening, adjective –dishearteningly, adverb –disheartenment, noun …

  • 7discouragement — noun 1. the feeling of despair in the face of obstacles • Syn: ↑disheartenment, ↑dismay • Derivationally related forms: ↑dismay (for: ↑dismay), ↑dishearten (for: ↑ …

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  • 8despondency — noun a) The loss of hope or confidence; despair or dejection. b) A feeling of depression or disheartenment …

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  • 9dispiritment — noun Dispiritedness; disheartenment. You honestly quit your tools; quit a most muddy confused coil of sore work, short rations, of sorrows, dispiritments and contradictions, having now honestly done with it all; and await, not entirely in a… …

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  • 10desperation — noun her family failed to see her state of desperation Syn: hopelessness, despair, distress; anguish, agony, torment, misery, wretchedness; discouragement, disheartenment …

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