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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
disheartening
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ For many college graduates, job hunting can be a disheartening struggle.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Their data-gathering can be a disheartening exercise.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
disheartening

disheartening \disheartening\ adj. Causing loss of hope or enthusiasm.

Syn: demoralizing, demoralising, dispiriting.

Wiktionary
disheartening

  1. Causing to lose heart; making despondent or gloomy; scare; discourage. v

  2. (present participle of dishearten English)

WordNet
disheartening

adj. destructive of morale and self-reliance [syn: demoralizing, demoralising, dispiriting]

Usage examples of "disheartening".

The light which can banish the oppressive, disheartening shadow of guilt must come from beyond the sun.

When the courage to attempt better things was reviving, it was sad that he should receive the first disheartening blow from his mother.

Remembering his fine displays on land, it was disheartening to see his proud spirit so low.

Dead fronds and branches tangled her feet as she ran, and she encountered a disheartening variety of thorny bushes and needley plants.