dispirited

Thân thiện

The team looked dispirited after the long, difficult loss.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Feeling or showing a loss of hope, enthusiasm, or courage; dejected and disheartened. This describes a state of low spirits, often due to disappointment, failure, or discouragement.
   • Lacking energy or liveliness; listless. This describes a state of low energy or motivation, often as a result of feeling dispirited.

Examples of Usage

• Adjective:
  • After the team's third consecutive loss, the players looked utterly dispirited.
  • She gave a dispirited sigh as she looked at the pile of unfinished work.
  • The dispirited crowd quietly left the stadium after the unexpected defeat.

Advanced Usage

• "to be dispirited by something": to become dejected because of a specific event or circumstance.
  • The staff were dispirited by the constant negative feedback.
• "to feel dispirited": to experience a state of low spirits.
  • He couldn't help but feel dispirited after the rejection letter arrived.

Variants and Related Words

• Dispiriting (adj): causing someone to lose hope or enthusiasm; discouraging.
  • The dispiriting news affected the whole community.
• Dispirit (v, less common): to cause (someone) to lose enthusiasm or hope; to dishearten.
  • The constant setbacks began to dispirit the researchers.

Synonyms

• Dejected: sad and depressed; dispirited.
• Disheartened: having lost determination or confidence; discouraged.
• Downcast: (of a person's eyes) looking downward; (of a person) feeling sad or discouraged.
• Crestfallen: sad and disappointed.
• Listless: lacking energy or enthusiasm.

Antonyms

• Enthusiastic: having or showing intense and eager enjoyment, interest, or approval.
• Exhilarated: very happy and excited.
• Upbeat: cheerful; optimistic.

Related Phrases

• To lose heart: to become discouraged.
  • Don't lose heart; we can try again tomorrow.
• Down in the dumps: feeling unhappy or without hope.
  • She's been down in the dumps since her project was canceled.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. filled with melancholy and despondency
   • gloomy at the thought of what he had to face
   • gloomy predictions
   • a gloomy silence
   • took a grim view of the economy
   • the darkening mood
   • lonely and blue in a strange city
   • depressed by the loss of his job
   • a dispirited and resigned expression on her face
   • downcast after his defeat
   • feeling discouraged and downhearted
2. marked by low spirits; showing no enthusiasm
   • a dispirited and divided Party
   • reacted to the crisis with listless resignation

Từ đồng nghĩa

• listless