Definitions
Wiktionary
- adj. Lowering the morale of; making despondent or depressive; disheartening.
- v. present participle of dispirit.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. causing dejection; discouraging. Opposite of
encouraging . - adj. causing dejection or depression.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. destructive of morale and self-reliance
Examples
“To say that these last years have been dispiriting is an understatement.”
“The 71-year-old justice labeled as "dispiriting" the decision to refuse entry through the front steps, although visitors may still leave the building that way.”
Justices lament closing main entrance to high court building
“Breyer, lamenting the court's "dispiriting" decision, said he knows of no other supreme court in the world that has closed its main entrance.”
The Washington Post: Supreme Court closes its front doors to the public
“Breyer said he knows of no other supreme court in the world that has closed its main entrance, and lamented the court's "dispiriting" decision.”
The Washington Post: Supreme Court to close front doors for security reasons
“No Greg, YOU stop with the "dispiriting" nonsense and the fraudulent numbers that Clinton is pushing.”
“It is kind of dispiriting to realize how batshit a lot of the Obombers really are.”
Hillary Hits Critics For Taking Her RFK Assassination Remarks "Out Of Context"
“And my children's friends have suggested they find reading "serious news" "dispiriting" because it makes them feel helpless.”
“The story describes a recent exercise involving "top Pentagon leaders" that simulated their response to "a sophisticated cyberattack aimed at paralyzing the nation's power grids, its communications systems or its financial networks" - with "dispiriting" results:”
“The programme outlined by the government was "dispiriting", he added.”
“Lord Laming said after the Baby P trial it was "dispiriting" that the same local authority was involved again.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘dispiriting’.
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simple & useful9
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litigious semantics
ad unguem, abeyance, choleric, contentious, curmudgeonly, churlish, dictatorial, vindictive, dogmatic, truculent, mutinous, refractory and 254 more...
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Monovocalics
Words that have only one of the vowels. On this list I include only words with at least three vowels. When I first started the list, if a word had several forms, I generally listed only the one wit...
syzygy, mirific, cumulus, homolog, monocot, bedewed, jezebel, referee, bikini, minikin, locomotor, terebenthene and 2359 more...
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Rita's List of Words
preliminary, rudimentary, stance, conduit, locale, implicit, vicissitude, empirical, repository, apophthegm, apothegm, invariable and 431 more...
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No Comeuppance!
comeuppance, ersatz, mensuration, felicitous, puissant, coccyx, groin vault, jactitation, titivate, crapulous, bibulous, lucubration and 116 more...
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adjectives
raffish, inspissated, aphasic, languid, desultory, dispiriting, gelid, torpid, ineluctable, heterodox, minatory, decorous and 5 more...
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