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dispirited

/dih-spir-i-tid/US // dɪˈspɪr ɪ tɪd //UK // (dɪˈspɪrɪtɪd) //

萎靡不振,萎靡不振的,沮丧的,颓废的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : discouraged; dejected; disheartened; gloomy.

Synonyms & Antonyms

adj.dejected, sad

Examples

  • Even partisans locked into their choices were probably dispirited at what they were witnessing.

  • Only two years ago, with awful economic numbers and a dispirited opposition, he was riding high.

  • Cameras panning to American fans showed dispirited faces, furrowed brows.

  • While fans of snubbed teams will be furious, or dispirited, or both, Wellman will crush in the aftermath of Tourney selection.

  • Such efforts have reenergized a movement that seemed, until recently, to be dispirited.

  • It is a measure of just how dispirited the Democratic base is that its members were not sure that Obama had even this much in him.

  • He acted dejected and dispirited, and if he could have talked would have asked the meaning of it all.

  • Full of fears, anxiety, and mistrust, it was a very dispirited Rabecque that now slowly followed Monsieur Gaubert into the inn.

  • He was now evidently exhausted by toil, and dispirited by disappointment.

  • I can hardly say why I have written this incoherent note; except, that I am dispirited, and thirst to talk to you.

  • To a lost wanderer, and especially to a dispirited woman, such magnitude was not sublime, but terrifying.