DISPIRITED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dispirited mean? 

• DISPIRITED (adjective)
  The adjective DISPIRITED has 2 senses:

1. marked by low spirits; showing no enthusiasm

2. filled with melancholy and despondency

  Familiarity information: DISPIRITED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DISPIRITED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Marked by low spirits; showing no enthusiasm

Synonyms:

dispirited; listless

Context example:

reacted to the crisis with listless resignation

Similar:

spiritless (lacking ardor or vigor or energy)

Derivation:

dispiritedness (a feeling of low spirits)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Filled with melancholy and despondency

Synonyms:

blue; depressed; dispirited; down; down in the mouth; downcast; downhearted; gloomy; grim; low; low-spirited

Context example:

feeling discouraged and downhearted

Similar:

dejected (affected or marked by low spirits)

Derivation:

dispiritedness (a feeling of low spirits)

 Context examples 

Her mind was so much weakened that she still fancied present exertion impossible, and therefore it only dispirited her more.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Being quite dispirited with toil, and wholly overcome by grief and dispair, I lay down between two ridges, and heartily wished I might there end my days.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

They were so tired and worn out and dispirited that there was nothing to be done till they had some rest; so I asked them all to lie down for half an hour whilst I should enter everything up to the moment.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I was not dispirited now.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Well, they can eat beef and bread and butter, if they are hungry, only it's mortifying to have to spend your whole morning for nothing, thought Jo, as she rang the bell half an hour later than usual, and stood, hot, tired, and dispirited, surveying the feast spread before Laurie, accustomed to all sorts of elegance, and Miss Crocker, whose tattling tongue would report them far and wide.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Their other aunt also visited them frequently, and always, as she said, with the design of cheering and heartening them up—though, as she never came without reporting some fresh instance of Wickham's extravagance or irregularity, she seldom went away without leaving them more dispirited than she found them.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

But then, strange to say, when I stood with my ragged shoes, and my dusty, sunburnt, half-clothed figure, in the place so long desired, it seemed to vanish like a dream, and to leave me helpless and dispirited.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

They were engaged about the end of that time to attend Lady Middleton to a party, from which Mrs. Jennings was kept away by the indisposition of her youngest daughter; and for this party, Marianne, wholly dispirited, careless of her appearance, and seeming equally indifferent whether she went or staid, prepared, without one look of hope or one expression of pleasure.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

That wine was not imported among us from foreign countries to supply the want of water or other drinks, but because it was a sort of liquid which made us merry by putting us out of our senses, diverted all melancholy thoughts, begat wild extravagant imaginations in the brain, raised our hopes and banished our fears, suspended every office of reason for a time, and deprived us of the use of our limbs, till we fell into a profound sleep; although it must be confessed, that we always awaked sick and dispirited; and that the use of this liquor filled us with diseases which made our lives uncomfortable and short.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)