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US
/dɪˈspɪɹətɪd/
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[ UK /dɪspˈɪɹɪtɪd/ ]
[ UK /dɪspˈɪɹɪtɪd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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marked by low spirits; showing no enthusiasm
reacted to the crisis with listless resignation
a dispirited and divided Party -
filled with melancholy and despondency
gloomy predictions
downcast after his defeat
depressed by the loss of his job
feeling discouraged and downhearted
a dispirited and resigned expression on her face
gloomy at the thought of what he had to face
the darkening mood
lonely and blue in a strange city
a gloomy silence
took a grim view of the economy
How To Use dispirited In A Sentence
- Activists who have fought land rights battles inspired by the Constitution are a weary, dispirited lot.
- I realized how our leadership brings forth mediocre organizations and dispirited people.
- Most of the children are dispirited because of some adolescent problem.
- There is no effort to hide the blandness and utter dispiritedness of that future.
- The Daily Telegraph said Capello desperately needs to shake up his team to get the best out of players like Frank Lampard and a "dispirited" Rooney before the final group C game with Slovenia. The Age News Headlines
- But Pietro is too lost in his own daydreams and dispirited behavior to pay attention to his studies.
- This was unforgivable form - but I was hot, sweating, badly sunburnt, my feet were freezing, wet and blistered, I was frantic with thirst, hungry and utterly dispirited.
- You can embrace your fears and become a timid, dispirited, wounded person for years—perhaps for a lifetime—or you can reject your dread and believe what God has said to be true. Recovering From Religious Abuse
- I take objection to being grouped in with the dispirited parents.
- He was a dispirited man, on the brink of destruction by the abrasive world of society and business.