disheartening

English

Adjective

disheartening (comparative more disheartening, superlative most disheartening)

  1. Causing a person to lose heart; making despondent or gloomy.
    Synonyms: discouraging; see also Thesaurus:disheartening
    Antonym: heartening
    • 1958 February, Michael Robbins, “Railways and Politics in East Cornwall”, in Railway Magazine, page 127:
      After this, with the disheartening failures after the Railway Mania, railway projection in east Cornwall went to sleep.

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Verb

disheartening

  1. present participle and gerund of dishearten
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