Dispiriting
adjective
Causing a loss of hope or enthusiasm.
The team’s loss in the game was very dispiriting for the fans.
Often appears as...
- dispiriting loss
- dispiriting fact
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Disapproving
adjective
Causing a loss of hope or enthusiasm.
The team’s loss in the game was very dispiriting for the fans.
Often appears as...
- dispiriting loss
- dispiriting fact
Usage tips
Disapproving
Definition 1 of 1
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Emotion
Indicates a strong negative emotional impact, usually sadness or frustration.
The constant rain during our vacation was dispiriting.
Pro Tip 2/3Loss of Motivation
Use when an event or fact diminishes someone's motivation or enthusiasm.
After the product failed, the team's morale was dispiriting.
Pro Tip 3/3Impact of Events
Best used in the context of events or outcomes that are unexpected and unwelcome.
The news of the economic downturn was particularly dispiriting.
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bleakdemoralizingdepressdiscouragedisheartendismaygloomysombre
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Quote examples
Hilton Als
American Writer
Dramas about addiction can be exciting to watch. And then dispiriting. Exciting because degradation is fascinating to follow from the relative safety and smugness of an 'appropriate' life, and dispiriting because if all that sad mayhem can happen to this or that character, what's to keep it from happening to me or you?
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Patrick Modiano
French Novelist
Writing is a strange and solitary activity. There are dispiriting times when you start working on the first few pages of a novel. Every day, you have the feeling you are on the wrong track. This creates a strong urge to go back and follow a different path. It is important not to give in to this urge but to keep going.
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Sue Townsend
English Novelist
The DSS offices are not given enough funding, their staff are poorly paid and are driven to distraction by the amount of work they have to do. There is frequent turnover of staff. Morale is extremely low. Working with desperate people all day is very dispiriting; their unhappiness rubs off on you.
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Cecile Richards
American Activist
Dealing with men in Congress - for the most part, it's pretty dispiriting in terms of the lack of regard they have for women. And they're not even... it's like they don't know what they don't know, and they don't even care what they don't know.
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Bjorn Lomborg
Danish Scientist
I found university a little dispiriting. I thought I would enter the great halls of Plato, but instead I entered the halls of an intellectual sausage factory. I wanted to do something not on the main course, and chose the environment.
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Susan Choi
American Novelist
I always try to avoid looking at the section where my books would be shelved, but I do know that my most reliable neighbor to the right is Kate Chopin's 'The Awakening', which is dispiriting. That's a book I don't want to re-read.
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Michael Wolff
American Author
Trump's election was dispiriting and confounding to most traditional political players - perhaps nobody more so than Murdoch. Still, Murdoch did what he has always done: made sure he had maximum influence with the new president.
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Robert Falcon Scott
British Explorer
The events of the day's march are now becoming so dreary and dispiriting that one longs to forget them when we camp; it is an effort even to record them in a diary.
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Joe Klein
American Journalist
For those of us who consider ourselves political moderates, life is a dispiriting slog, a sorry mix of rectitude and ineptitude.
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Hilton Als
American Writer
Dramas about addiction can be exciting to watch. And then dispiriting. Exciting because degradation is fascinating to follow from the relative safety and smugness of an 'appropriate' life, and dispiriting because if all that sad mayhem can happen to this or that character, what's to keep it from happening to me or you?
Quote examples
Patrick Modiano
French Novelist
Writing is a strange and solitary activity. There are dispiriting times when you start working on the first few pages of a novel. Every day, you have the feeling you are on the wrong track. This creates a strong urge to go back and follow a different path. It is important not to give in to this urge but to keep going.
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Sue Townsend
English Novelist
The DSS offices are not given enough funding, their staff are poorly paid and are driven to distraction by the amount of work they have to do. There is frequent turnover of staff. Morale is extremely low. Working with desperate people all day is very dispiriting; their unhappiness rubs off on you.
Quote examples
Cecile Richards
American Activist
Dealing with men in Congress - for the most part, it's pretty dispiriting in terms of the lack of regard they have for women. And they're not even... it's like they don't know what they don't know, and they don't even care what they don't know.
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Bjorn Lomborg
Danish Scientist
I found university a little dispiriting. I thought I would enter the great halls of Plato, but instead I entered the halls of an intellectual sausage factory. I wanted to do something not on the main course, and chose the environment.
Quote examples
Susan Choi
American Novelist
I always try to avoid looking at the section where my books would be shelved, but I do know that my most reliable neighbor to the right is Kate Chopin's 'The Awakening', which is dispiriting. That's a book I don't want to re-read.
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Michael Wolff
American Author
Trump's election was dispiriting and confounding to most traditional political players - perhaps nobody more so than Murdoch. Still, Murdoch did what he has always done: made sure he had maximum influence with the new president.
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Robert Falcon Scott
British Explorer
The events of the day's march are now becoming so dreary and dispiriting that one longs to forget them when we camp; it is an effort even to record them in a diary.
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Joe Klein
American Journalist
For those of us who consider ourselves political moderates, life is a dispiriting slog, a sorry mix of rectitude and ineptitude.
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