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Definition: Demoralized |
DemoralizedAdjective1. Made less hopeful or enthusiastic; "desperate demoralized people looking for work"; "felt discouraged by the magnitude of the problem"; "the disheartened instructor tried vainly to arouse their interest". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "demoralized" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1839. (references) |
Synonyms: DemoralizedSynonyms: demoralised (adj), discouraged (adj), disheartened (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Impotence | Paralytic, paralyzed; palsied, imbecile; nerveless, sinewless, marrowless, pithless, lustless; emasculate, disjointed; out of joint, out of gear; unnerved, unhinged; water-logged, on one's beam ends, rudderless; laid on one's back; done up, dead beat, exhausted, shattered, demoralized; graveled; (in difficulty); helpless, unfriended, fatherless; without a leg to stand on, hors de combat, laid on the shelf. |
Vice | Miscreated, misbegotten; demoralized, corrupt, depraved. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Demoralized |
| English words defined with "demoralized": demoralised, discouraged, disheartened. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "demoralized": Demoralize. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | A high percentage are depressed or demoralized secondary to suffering panic attacks but should be treated for panic first. (references) | |
Often, this is in the form of advertisements in which enticing promises are made, and patients then become even more demoralized when promised benefits fail to materialize. (references) | ||
Economic History | Bangladesh | While continuing the ban on political parties, he sought to revitalize the demoralized bureaucracy, to begin new economic development programs, and to emphasize family planning. (references) |
Human Rights | Georgia | The increase was attributed to the insufficient and demoralized guard staff. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | We rebuilt a demoralized, underfunded and unappreciated military. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Demoralized" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 45.16% of the time. "Demoralized" is used about 31 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 45.16% | 14 | 93,893 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 32.26% | 10 | 111,207 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 22.58% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Total | 100.00% | 31 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "demoralized"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 夺志 (demoralise, demoralised, demoralising, Demoralize, Demoralizing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | démoralisai, démoralisés, démoralisées, démoralisa. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | demoralisierte. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Korean | 타락시키" (Corrupted, demoralised). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | emoralizedday деморализовать деморализованный. (various references) desmoralizado. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
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"Demoralized" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: delocalized, demoralise, detotalized. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "demoralized" (pronounced di'mô"rulī'zd) |
| 6 | -r u l ī' z d | centralized, decentralized, hydrolyzed, neutralized, paralyzed, sterilized. |
| 5 | -u l ī' z d | analyzed, annualized, brutalized, capitalized, caramelized, catalyzed, civilized, collateralized, commercialized, criminalized, crystallized, demobilized, denationalized, departmentalized, destabilized, editorialized, equalized, federalized, fertilized, fictionalized, finalized, formalized, fossilized, generalized, globalized, hospitalized, idealized, idolized, immobilized, industrialized, internalized, legalized, liberalized, localized, marginalized, materialized, memorialized, mobilized, monopolized, nationalized, naturalized, normalized, penalized, personalized, professionalized, radicalized, rationalized, recapitalized, regionalized, revitalized, scandalized, serialized, socialized, specialized, stabilized, symbolized, tantalized, trivialized, undercapitalized, underutilized, unrealized, utilized, vandalized, visualized. |
| 4 | -l ī' z d | creolized, realized, stylized. |
| 3 | -ī' z d | accessorized, advertised, agonized, aluminized, amortized, anglicized, antagonized, apologized, authorized, balkanized, burglarized, capsized, carbonized, categorized, characterized, circumcised, collectivized, colonized, colorized, compromised, computerized, containerized, criticized, customized, demilitarized, democratized, demonized, denuclearized, depressurized, deputized, desensitized, digitized, disenfranchised, disorganized, downsized, dramatized, emphasized, energized, enfranchised, epitomized, eulogized, excised, exercised, familiarized, fantasized, galvanized, harmonized, hellenized, heroized, homogenized, humanized, hypnotized, hypothesized, immunized, improvised, ironized, itemized, jeopardized, legitimized, lionized, magnetized, maximized, mechanized, memorized, mesmerized, metastasized, midsized, militarized, miniaturized, minimized, mischaracterized, modernized, motorized, nonunionized, organized, ostracized, outsized, oxidized, pasteurized, patronized, plagiarized, polarized, politicized, polymerized, popularized, pressurized, prioritized, privatized, proselytized, publicized, pulverized, randomized, reauthorized, recognized, reorganized, revolutionized, romanticized, rubberized, sanitized, scrutinized, securitized, sensitized, standardized, stigmatized, subsidized, summarized, supervised, sympathized, synchronized, synthesized, televised, terrorized, theorized, traumatized, unamortized, unauthorized, undersized, unexercised, unionized, unorganized, unrecognized, unsubsidized, unsupervised, urbanized, vaporized, westernized, winterized. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-d-e-e-i-l-m-o-r-z" | |
-1 letter: demoralize. | |
-2 letters: melodized, melodizer, moralized. | |
-3 letters: deadlier, derailed, melodize, moldered, moralize, realized, redialed, reloaded, remailed, remedial, remolade, remolded. | |
-4 letters: admired, damozel, dariole, deaired, delimed, dermoid, diazole, dreamed, dreidel, earldom, emailed, emerald, emeroid, leadier, limeade, loamier, mealier, medaled, meddler, melodia, middler, modeled, modeler, moldier, radioed, readied, realize, remodel, reoiled. | |
-5 letters: admire, adored, aedile, aeried, amidol, areole. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-d-e-e-i-l-m-o-r-z" | |
+1 letter: deformalized, deglamorized. | |
+3 letters: melodramatized. | |
+5 letters: adrenalectomized. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 65 6D 6F 72 61 6C 69 7A 65 64 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. . -- --- .-. .- .-.. .. --.. . -.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01100101 01101101 01101111 01110010 01100001 01101100 01101001 01111010 01100101 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D e m o r a l i z e d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0065 006D 006F 0072 0061 006C 0069 007A 0065 0064 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3871798184677875927170 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Quotations: Speeches 7. Usage Frequency 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Rhymes 11. Anagrams 12. Orthography | 13. Bibliography |
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