English Explanatory Dictionary

disheartening

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Causing a person to lose heart; making despondent or gloomy.
verb
  1. present participle and gerund of dishearten

Word forms

disheartening more disheartening most disheartening

Synonyms

discouraging crushing demotivating daunting demoralizing disappointing disheartening dispiriting bleak gutting

Antonyms

heartening

Related words

frighten

Derived words

dishearteningly
This entry uses open data from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA/GFDL). Word forms are used for search and are not indexed as separate pages.
Back to search All on D Russian dictionary Dahl dictionary