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Definition: Disheartened |
DisheartenedAdjective1. 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 "disheartened" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references) |
Synonyms: DisheartenedSynonyms: demoralised (adj), demoralized (adj), discouraged (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Dejection | Melancholy as a gib cat; oppressed with melancholy, a prey to melancholy; downcast, downhearted; down in the mouth, down in one;s luck; heavy-hearted; in the dumps, down in the dumps, in the suds, in the sulks, in the doldrums; in doleful dumps, in bad humor; sullen; mumpish, dumpish, mopish, moping; moody, glum; sulky; (discontented); out of sorts, out of humor, out of heart, out of spirits; ill at ease, low spirited, in low spirits, a cup too low; weary; discouraged, disheartened; desponding; chapfallen, chopfallen, jaw fallen, crest fallen. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Disheartened |
| English words defined with "disheartened": demoralised, demoralized, despondence, despondency, disconsolateness, Discourageable, discouraged, disheartenment ♦ heartsickness ♦ To look blue. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "disheartened": smoke and mirrors. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "disheartened": Dishearten. (references) |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The Thenardiers being poorly paid, were constantly writing letters to her, the contents of which disheartened her, while the postage was ruining her. |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | Disheartened, he raised his eyes towards the slowdrifting clouds, dappled and seaborne. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Yemen | In the aftermath of the civil war, YSP leaders within Yemen reorganized the party and elected a new politburo in July 1994. However, the party remained disheartened and without its former influence. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Disheartened" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 65.22% of the time. "Disheartened" is used about 23 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 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 65.22% | 15 | 90,616 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 13.04% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 13.04% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (proper) | 8.7% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 23 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "disheartened": be disheartened ♦ become disheartened. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "disheartened": never-disheartened. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
disheartened | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "disheartened"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | mieleni lannistui (I became disheartened, I lost heart), masentua (be discouraged, be disheartened). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | verzagtem, entmutigte (dampened, dejected, discouraged, dispirited), entmutigt (dampens, daunted, daunts, dejects, discouraged, discourages, disheartens, dispirited, dispiritedly, dispirits, downhearted, frustrated). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | αποκαρδιωμένος (despondent). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | elcsüggedt (dispirited, downhearted, down-hearted), csüggedt (crestfallen, crest-fallen, daunted, despondent, dispirited, heart-sick). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | sfiduciato (discouraged), affranto (broken hearted, heartbroken, worn out). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 意気銷沈 (depressed in spirits, dispirited, rejection), 意気消沈 (depressed in spirits, dispirited, rejection). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | いきしょうち" (depressed in spirits, dispirited, rejection). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | isheartenedday abãtut (blue, cast down, crest-fallen, dejected, depressed, dispirited, downcast, down-hearted, downsome, dumpy, gloomy, heart-heavy, heavy-hearted, in low spirits, in poor spirits, jaw-fallen, lamenting, long-faced, low, low-spirited, melancholy, mopish, sad, sick, useless). (various references) обескураживать обескураженный. (various references) digalon (dejected, depressed, sad). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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"Disheartened" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: disheartend. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "disheartened" (pronounced di'shÄ"rtund) |
| 7 | -h Ä" r t u n d | heartened. |
| 5 | -r t u n d | shortened. |
| 4 | -t u n d | brightened, buttoned, cottoned, destined, enlightened, fattened, flattened, frightened, heightened, lightened, predestined, straightened, sweetened, threatened, tightened, unbuttoned, unenlightened. |
| 3 | -u n d | abandoned, aforementioned, aland, almond, apportioned, auctioned, auditioned, awakened, bargained, beckoned, blackened, bludgeoned, broadened, burdened, burgeoned, captioned, cautioned, championed, chastened, cheapened, chickened, christened, commissioned, conditioned, cordoned, cushioned, dampened, darkened, decommissioned, deepened, determined, diamond, dimensioned, disciplined, disillusioned, dockland, Eland, emblazoned, emboldened, engined, enlivened, envisioned, errand, evened, examined, fashioned, fastened, functioned, gardened, Garland, garrisoned, glistened, happened, hardened, hastened, Highland, Holland, husband, illumined, imagined, impassioned, imprisoned, island, jettisoned, leavened, legend, lengthened, lessened, ligand, likened, listened, livened, loosened, malfunctioned, margined, mentioned, millisecond, moistened, moribund, motioned, nanosecond, Norland, occasioned, opened, optioned, orphaned, Osmund, overburdened, pardoned, partitioned, petitioned, poisoned, positioned, predetermined, prisoned, proportioned, propositioned, questioned, quickened, rationed, reasoned, reawakened, rechristened, reckoned, reconditioned, reexamined, reopened, repositioned, requisitioned, Reverend, ripened, ruined, saddened, sanctioned, seasoned, second, sectioned, sharpened, Shetland, sickened, siphoned, slackened, softened, soland, stationed, steepened, stiffened, stipend, strengthened, summoned, thickened, thousand, toughened, unburdened, undetermined, unmentioned, unopened, unquestioned, unsanctioned, upland, vacationed, weakened, widened, wizened, worsened. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-d-e-e-e-h-i-n-r-s-t" | |
-2 letters: desiderate, dishearten. | |
-3 letters: adherends, adherents, antherids, darnedest, deadeners, deaneries, dendrites, destained, detainees, detainers, detrained, eternised, heartened, herniated, herniates, inearthed, neatherds, resinated, serenaded, tarnished, teredines. | |
-4 letters: adherend, adherent, andesite, antherid, arenites, arsenide, arsenite, dandiest, darndest, deadener, deediest, dendrite, deserted, destined, detained, detainee, detainer, detrains, diehards, diethers, disrated, dithered, eateries, endeared, eternise, haeredes, hairnets, handiest. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-d-e-e-e-h-i-n-r-s-t" | |
+3 letters: featherbeddings, kindheartedness. | |
+5 letters: kindheartednesses. | |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01101001 01110011 01101000 01100101 01100001 01110010 01110100 01100101 01101110 01100101 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D i s h e a r t e n e d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0069 0073 0068 0065 0061 0072 0074 0065 006E 0065 0064 |
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| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Finnish | määritelmä, translaatio, taajuusmuutos | suomi, suomalainen, finnisch, φινλανδικόσ, finn, finlandese, finlandezã, финский |
German | Übersetzung, Wörterbuch, Definition | saksalainen, "ερμανός, német, tedesco, ジプシー音楽 , ジャーマン , neamţ, немецкий, Almaenwr |
Greek | λεξικό, ορισμός, μετάφραση | kreikkalainen, grieche, ελληνικόσ, 'Ελληνας, görög, greco, ギリシア語 , ギリシア", greacã, греческий, грек, Groegwr |
Hungarian | szótár, meghatározás, definíció, fordítás | unkarilainen, Ungar, Ούγγρος, magyar, ungherese, unguresc, limba ungarã, limba maghiarã, ungureşte, ungur, maghiar, венгр, венгерский |
Italian | dizionario, definizione, traduzione | italialainen, italienisch, Ιταλός, olasz, italiano, italienesc, italieneşte, italian, italianã, итальянский язык, итальянец, итальянский |
Japanese Kanji | 辭典 , 辞典 , 字引 , 辞林 , 字書 , ディーゼル電気車 , 言海 , 辞彙 , 辞書 , 確定 , ディーゼル電気車 , デ'ドロ酢酸 , 翻訳 | japanilainen, japaner, japanisch, ιαπωνικόσ, Ιάπωνας· "ιαπωνέζος, ιάπωνεσ, ιάπων, ιαπωνικά, japán, giapponese, 邦語 , 邦人 , ジャスミン茶 , ほう", ジャパニーズ , ほうじ", japonezã, японский, японец |
Japanese Katakana | じい, じびき, じて", ディクショナリー , じり", じしょ, '"かい, ディクショナリ , デフィニション , ディフィニション , ていぎ, かくてい, へい"ういどう, やくじゅつ, トランスレーション , やくしょ, やくしゅつ, "うどく, ほ"やく, ほ"やくしょ | japanilainen, japaner, japanisch, ιαπωνικόσ, Ιάπωνας· "ιαπωνέζος, ιάπωνεσ, ιάπων, ιαπωνικά, japán, giapponese, 邦語 , 邦人 , ジャスミン茶 , ほう", ジャパニーズ , ほうじ", japonezã, японский, японец |
Romanian | dicţionar, definiţie, determinare, definire, translaţie, traducere, tãlmãcire | romanialainen, rumäne, ρουμανόσ, Ρουμάνος, román, rumeno, român, румынский, румын |
Russian | словарь, определение, трансляция, сдвиг, перевод, перемещение | venäläinen, Russe, russisch, Ρώσος, orosz, russo, ロシア語 , ロシア", русский |
Welsh | geirlyfr, geiriadur, diffiniad, darnodiad, trosiad | walisisch, ουάλλοσ, ουαλλικόσ, δεν πληρώνω τα οφειλόμενα, walesi, gallese, limba velşã, velş, din ţara galilor, уэльский, Cymreig |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | englantia, englantilainen, englisch, εγγλέζοσ, αγγλικόσ, angol, inglese, englezesc, английский, Saesneg |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Quotations: Fiction | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Derivations 11. Rhymes 12. Anagrams | 13. Orthography 14. Bibliography |
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