Hypertext Webster Gateway: "disheartened"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Dishearten \Dis*heart"en\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Disheartened};
p. pr. & vb. n. {Disheartening}.] [Pref. dis- + hearten.]
To discourage; to deprive of courage and hope; to depress the
spirits of; to deject.
Regiments . . . utterly disorganized and disheartened.
--Macaulay.
Syn: To dispirit; discourage; depress; deject; deter;
terrify.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
disheartened
adj : made less hopeful or enthusiastic; "desperate demoralized
people looking for work"; "felt discouraged by the
magnitude of the problem"; "the disheartened instructor
tried vainly to arouse their interest" [syn: {demoralized},
{demoralised}, {discouraged}]
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