dispirited
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Pronunciation
Verb
dispirited
- simple past and past participle of dispirit
Adjective
dispirited (comparative more dispirited, superlative most dispirited)
- Without energy, gusto or drive, enervated, without the will to accomplish, disheartened.
- So dispirited were the troops after the loss of their beloved commander that they moped about and could barely be bothered to eat let alone load their guns.
- 2012 April 19, Josh Halliday, “Free speech haven or lawless cesspool – can the internet be civilised?”, in the Guardian:
- The shift in the balance of power online has allowed anyone to publish to the world, from dispirited teenagers in south London to an anonymous cyber-dissident in a Middle East autocracy.
Derived terms
Translations
without spirit — see despondent
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