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disheartening
 
Adjective disheartening has 1 sense
  1. demoralizing, demoralising, disheartening, dispiriting - destructive of morale and self-reliance
    Antonym: encouraging (indirect, via discouraging)
Verb dishearten has 1 sense
  1. dishearten, put off - take away the enthusiasm of
    --1 is one way to discourage
    Antonyms: cheer, hearten, recreate, embolden
    Derived forms: noun disheartenment1, noun disheartenment2
    Sample sentences:
    The performance is likely to dishearten Sue
    The bad news will dishearten him
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