Adjective dispiriting has 2 senses
- demoralizing, demoralising, disheartening, dispiriting - destructive of morale and self-reliance
Antonym: encouraging (indirect, via discouraging)
- 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)
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Verb dispirit has 1 sense
- 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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