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dispiriting

 
Adjective dispiriting has 2 senses
  1. demoralizing, demoralising, disheartening, dispiriting - destructive of morale and self-reliance
    Antonym: encouraging (indirect, via discouraging)
  2. blue, dark, depressing, disconsolate, dismal, dispiriting, gloomy, grim - causing dejection; "a blue day"; "the dark days of the war"; "a week of rainy depressing weather"; "a disconsolate winter landscape"; "the first dismal dispiriting days of November"; "a dark gloomy day"; "grim rainy weather"
    Antonym: cheerful (indirect, via cheerless)
Verb dispirit has 1 sense
  1. depress, deject, cast down, get down, dismay, dispirit, demoralize, demoralise - lower someone's spirits; make downhearted; "These news depressed her"; "The bad state of her child's health demoralizes her"
    --1 is one way to discourage
    Sample sentence:
    The bad news will dispirit him
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