The Collaborative International Dictionary
dispiriting \dispiriting\ adj. causing dejection; discouraging. Opposite of encouraging.
Syn: demoralizing, demoralising, disheartening.
2. causing dejection or depression.
Syn: black, dark, depressing, grim.
Wiktionary
Lowering the morale of; making despondent or depressive; disheartening. v
(present participle of dispirit English)
WordNet
adj. destructive of morale and self-reliance [syn: demoralizing, demoralising, disheartening]
causing dejection; "a blue day"; "the dark days of the war"; "a week of rainy depressing weather"; "a disconsolate winter landscape"; "the first dismal dispiriting days of November"; "a dark gloomy day"; "grim rainy weather" [syn: blue, dark, depressing, disconsolate, dismal, gloomy, grim]
Usage examples of "dispiriting".
We were camped at a lofty spot called Indian Grave Gap, between two brooding summits—the one tiring to recollect, the other dispiriting to behold.
We woke, stiff and unrested, to a gloomy dawn of falling snow and the dispiriting prospect of a long, long day with nothing to do but hang out at the camp store or lie on a bunkbed reading old Reader’s Digests, which filled a small shelf by the door.
There is something deeply dispiriting about the stiff rustle of nylon and the endless, curiously amplified patter of rain on synthetic material.
I couldn’t help feeling a kind of helpless and dispiriting pointlessness in what I was doing.
The hardest part was coming to terms with the constant dispiriting discovery that there is always more hill.
We were camped at a lofty spot called Indian Grave Gap, between two brooding summits--the one tiring to recollect, the other dispiriting to behold.
We woke, stiff and unrested, to a gloomy dawn of falling snow and the dispiriting prospect of a long, long day with nothing to do but hang out at the camp store or lie on a bunkbed reading old Reader's Digests, which filled a small shelf by the door.
I couldn't help feeling a kind of helpless and dispiriting pointlessness in what I was doing.
The whole area was a dispiriting combination of auto parts stores, empty buildings and vacant lots.
A middle-aged couple came along and as we stood chatting about what a dispiriting experience this was, a miraculous thing happened.
There can be few experiences more dispiriting than to lie alone in a darkened motel room in a place like Wyoming and watch TV early on a Sunday morning.
On reflection, I can think of one eating experience even more dispiriting than dining at the 4-Way Cafe and that was the lunchroom at Callanan Junior High School in Des Moines.
The circle at once widened round us, and our offers of reward were received in dispiriting silence.
It would be dispiriting to me, this early beginning and first cold dabble of a most dispiriting day's work.
They clutter every kerbside, turn ancient market squares into disorderly jumbles of metal, spawn petrol stations, secondhand car lots, Kwik-Fit centres and other dispiriting blights.