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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
dispirited
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Pernkopf returned to Vienna a broken and dispirited man.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Both pieces deserve much better, though their strength shines through even this dispirited sight-reading.
▪ He returned to Vienna a broken and dispirited man, according to Williams.
▪ Kirkpatrick identifies the need to change existing institutions as being vital in helping the poor, the disadvantaged and the dispirited.
▪ Older people can quickly become dispirited and depressed by chronic illness.
▪ The passengers made a dispirited trio as they approached Dunbar Castle.
▪ Then Alvin endured a long, dispirited wait for a flight back to New York late that night.
▪ This results in dispirited performances, sometimes marred by feigned injuries.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
dispirited

dispirited \dis*pir"it*ed\, a. Depressed in spirits; deprived of cheer or enthusiasm; disheartened; discouraged; daunted.

Syn: depressed, down(predicate), downcast, downhearted, low, low-spirited, disheartened, discouraged, demoralized. [1913 Webster] -- Dis*pir"it*ed*ly, adv. -- Dis*pir"it*ed, n.

Wiktionary
dispirited
  1. Without energy, gusto or drive, enervated, without the will to accomplish, disheartened. v

  2. (en-past of: dispirit)

WordNet
dispirited
  1. adj. marked by low spirits; showing no enthusiasm; "a dispirited and divided Party"; "reacted to the crisis with listless resignation" [syn: listless]

  2. low in spirits; "lonely and blue in a strange city"; "depressed by the loss of his job"; "a dispirited and resigned expression on her face"; "downcast after his defeat"; "feeling discouraged and downhearted" [syn: blue, depressed, down(p), downcast, downhearted, down in the mouth, low, low-spirited]

Usage examples of "dispirited".

If there were no hives in the vicinity, these bees soon became confused and dispirited.

When they saw the caved-in Berliner Dom in the distance, they were too dispirited to go on and decided to stroll up the Linden instead, the old Sunday outing.

Cassy looked down on Legree, as, weary and dispirited, he alighted from his horse.

At Nankin the weary and dispirited survivors realized that Japan was now also at war with the United States and that Osaka and Nagoya were in the hands of Communist Committees.

When Absalom finally rejoined his family, he was exhausted, dispirited, and prepared to take an extended home leave.

CHAPTER TWO alethea inspected her wardrobe in a dispirited fashion, only too conscious of the fact that on the previous evening she had been wild with excitement at the idea of dining with Nick.

The whole neighborhood seemed dispirited, from the patchy lawns to the cracked concrete driveways where every second house had a car up on blocks.

A nice change from the medical ladies, mostly chronic bronchitis, bad hearts and diabetes and, by the very nature of their illnesses, dispirited.

The young soldiers, still bewildered and now very dispirited, retreated down Changan Avenue, finally, in the middle of the morning.

Then, today, while I was trying to clean up a little (mostly I'm too exhausted and dispirited to even try), I broke my mother's favorite plate, the one with the Currier & Ives sledding scene on it.

At this critical moment the coati bravely scampered forward and made a gallant if misguided effort to rally his dispirited troops.

The rest of that division was now marching through the crossroads and past the remnants of the dispirited Belgians.

Even without the disinfectants, it was too dispirited a place for any but the most determined of germs, and nothing around here seemed all that determined.

David stopped in front of Number 541, H Street, a narrow, lead-colored, four-story brick house with a yard to one side, containing a wooden shack and a number of dispirited chickens.

For days he had drooped about the empty chicken run, too dispirited to crow.