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Definition: Dispirit |
DispiritVerb1. Lower someone's spirits; make downhearted; "These news depressed her"; "The bad state of her child's health demoralizes her". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "dispirit" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1780. (references) |
Note: Dispirit \Dis*pir"it\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Dispirited; present participle verb or noun Dispiriting.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonyms: DispiritSynonyms: cast down (v), deject (v), demoralise (v), demoralize (v), depress (v), dismay (v), get down (v). (additional references) |
| Antonym: elate (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Dejection | Depress; discourage, dishearten; dispirit; damp, dull, deject, lower, sink, dash, knock down, unman, prostrate, break one's heart; frown upon; cast a gloom, cast a shade on; sadden; damp one's hopes, dash one's hopes, wither one's hopes; weigh on the mind, lie heavy on the mind, prey on the mind, weigh on the spirits, lie heavy on the spirits, prey on the spirits; damp the spirits, depress the spirits. |
Dissuasion | Disincline, indispose, shake, stagger; dispirit; discourage, dishearten; deter; repress, hold back, keep back; (restrain); render averse; repel; turn aside; (deviation); wean from; act as a drag; (hinder); throw cold water on, damp, cool, chill, blunt, calm, quiet, quench; deprecate. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Dispirit |
| English words defined with "dispirit": Dastardize, Disspirit ♦ Forwweary ♦ To depress the pole ♦ Unspirit. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "dispirit": Forwweary. (references) |
| "Dispirit" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Dispirit" is used about 4 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 (infinitive) | 100% | 4 | 175,879 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "dispirit"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | dëshpëroj (cast down, despair, discourage, dishearten, embitter, get down, sadden), shkurajoj (discourage, dishearten, unnerve), ligështoj (enervate, enfeeble, get down). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | وقع الكآبة في النفس, ثبط الهمة (daunt). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | отчайвам (discourage, disharden, prostrate), обезсърчавам (damp, dampen, daunt, discountenance, discourage, dishearten, pour cold water on), обезкуражавам (deject, pour cold water on). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | deprimovat (cast down, depress, dishearten, drag down, get down, get down on one's knees). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | déprimer, décourager (discourage, dishearten, dissatisfy), abattre (dig up, discourage, dispatch). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | entmutigen (chill, dampen, daunt, deject, demoralize, depress, discourage, dishearten, frustrate, pull down, to daunt, to deject, to discourage, to dishearten, to dispirit, unman, unnerve). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | αποθαρρύνω (bar, daunt, demoralize, discountenance, discourage, dishearten, put off). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | ל"רפות י"י (discourage). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | elcsüggeszt (daunt, deject, dishearten, to daunt, to depress, to discourage, to dishearten, to dismay, to dispirit, to distress, to unman). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | scoraggiare (be discouraged, daunt, deject, demoralize, deter, discourage, dishearten). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ispiritday dispersivo, desanimar (chill, collapse, damp, deject, depress, despair, despond, discount coupon, discourage, disherison, dismay, drench, flatten, quail, throw cold water on, unman, unnerve), desalentar (unnerve). (various references) descuraja (beat down, bring low, cast down, chill, damp, dash, daunt, deject, depress, deter, discourage, dishearten, dismay, face down, flatten, mope, scare, unnerve). (various references) удручать (aggrieve, deject, press upon). (various references) dovoditi do očajanja. (various references) desalentar (damp, dampen, daunt, depress, deter, discourage, dishearten, dismay). (various references) göra modfälld (dash, discomfit, discountenance, discourage, dishearten). (various references) moralini bozmak (demoralize, depress, enervate), keyfini kaçırmak (discomfort, flatten, give the pips, indispose, miff, upset), cesaretini kırmak (be a disincentive to, dash, daunt, demoralize, discourage, dishearten, enervate, screw up one's courage, tame, unman, unnerve). (various references) засмучувати (afflict, aggravate, aggrieve, chagrin, chill, discompose, dishearten, grieve, oppress, rue, sadden, unsettle, upset). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "dispirit": dispirited, dispiritedly, dispiritedness, dispiritednesses, dispiriting, dispirits. (additional references) | |
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"Dispirit" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Diospyros, disparat, disparit, Disprin. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-i-i-i-p-r-s-t" | |
-2 letters: iritis, spirit. | |
-3 letters: dirts, drips, dript, irids, spirt, sprit, stirp, strip, tipis, trips. | |
-4 letters: dips, dipt, dirt, dits, drip, irid, iris, pits, rids, rips, spit, stir, tipi, tips, trip. | |
-5 letters: dip, dis, dit, ids, its, pis, pit, psi, rid, rip, sip, sir, sit, sri, tip, tis. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-i-i-i-p-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: dispirits. | |
+2 letters: dispirited, inspirited, rapidities. | |
+3 letters: disparities, dispiriting, putridities, torpidities, triploidies. | |
+4 letters: dispiritedly, parasiticide, pericarditis. | |
+5 letters: drapabilities, intrepidities, parasiticidal, parasiticides, pediatricians, periodicities, prodigalities, radioisotopic, redisposition, serendipities, spiritualized, stipendiaries. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 69 73 70 69 72 69 74 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. .. ... .--. .. .-. .. - |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01101001 01110011 01110000 01101001 01110010 01101001 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D i s p i r i t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0069 0073 0070 0069 0072 0069 0074 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3875858275847586 |
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