DEMORALIZED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does demoralized mean? 

• DEMORALIZED (adjective)
  The adjective DEMORALIZED has 1 sense:

1. made less hopeful or enthusiastic

  Familiarity information: DEMORALIZED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DEMORALIZED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Made less hopeful or enthusiastic

Synonyms:

demoralised; demoralized; discouraged; disheartened

Context example:

the disheartened instructor tried vainly to arouse their interest

Similar:

pessimistic (expecting the worst possible outcome)

 Context examples 

I thought you'd never come! cried Amy, dropping the reins and holding out both hands, to the great scandalization of a French mamma, who hastened her daughter's steps, lest she should be demoralized by beholding the free manners of these 'mad English'.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

What with the physical shocks incidental to my first interview with Professor Challenger and the mental ones which accompanied the second, I was a somewhat demoralized journalist by the time I found myself in Enmore Park once more.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)