What is another word for dispiriting?

Pronunciation: [dɪspˈɪɹɪtɪŋ] (IPA)

When we encounter situations that are discouraging or leave us feeling low-spirited, we often describe them as dispiriting. However, there are several other words that can be used to convey a similar sentiment. Words like demoralizing, frustrating, devastating, and depressing can all be used in place of dispiriting. Alternatively, if we want to suggest that something is particularly discouraging or hopeless, we might choose to use terms like bleak, dismal, forlorn, or dreary. The English language is rich with synonyms that can help us to evoke the precise emotional impact we wish to convey, and this is particularly true when we need to describe situations that are draining or disheartening.

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What are the opposite words for dispiriting?

Antonyms for dispiriting include uplifting, encouraging, inspiring, motivating, stimulating, invigorating, refreshing, exhilarating, stimulating, exhilarating, and heartening. These words connote feelings of positivity, hopefulness, and enthusiasm, connoting the opposite qualities that make something dispiriting. Uplifting refers to something that brightens one's mood and fosters a sense of optimism. Encouraging instills confidence, inspiring ideas to spur people to new heights. Stimulating and invigorating are terms used to describe lively and engaging activities that energize and revitalize individuals. Refreshing refers to something that rejuvenates and revitalizes the senses, while exhilarating denotes something that produces feelings of excitement and pleasurable anticipation. Finally, Heartening is something that is comforting and reassuring, promoting feelings of hope and optimism.

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Usage examples for Dispiriting

It is well first to realize that which is dispiriting in it, its failure to provide for the freedom, immortality, and moral providence of the more sanguine faith.
"The Approach to Philosophy"
Ralph Barton Perry
It was, indeed, a most depressing and dispiriting accompaniment to our intended excursion: and even O'Leary, who seemed to have but slight sympathy with external influences, felt it, for he spoke but little, and was scarcely ten minutes in the carriage till he was sound asleep.
"The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer, Complete"
Charles James Lever (1806-1872)
It is rather dispiriting.
"Olivia in India"
O. Douglas

Famous quotes with Dispiriting

  • The events of the day's march are now becoming so dreary and dispiriting that one longs to forget them when we camp; it is an effort even to record them in a diary.
    Robert Falcon Scott
  • While it is much preferable to anarchy, government cannot abolish the evils of the human condition. At any time the state is only one of the forces that shape human behaviour, and its power is never absolute. At present, fundamentalist religion and organized crime, ethnic-national allegiances and market forces all have the ability to elude the control of government, sometimes to overthrow or capture it. States are at the mercy of events as much as any other human institution, and over the longer course of history all of them fail. As Spinoza recognized, there is no reason to think the cycle of order and anarchy will ever end. Secular thinkers find this view of human affairs dispiriting, and most have retreated to some version of the Christian view in which history is a narrative of redemption. The most common of these narratives are theories of progress, in which the growth of knowledge enables humanity to advance and improve its condition. Actually, humanity cannot advance or retreat, for humanity cannot act: there is no collective entity with intentions or purposes, only ephemeral struggling animals each with its own passions and illusions. The growth of scientific knowledge cannot alter this fact. Believers in progress – whether social democrats or neo-conservatives, Marxists, anarchists or technocratic Positivists – think of ethics and politics as being like science, with each step forward enabling further advances in future. Improvement in society is cumulative, they believe, so that the elimination of one evil can be followed by the removal of others in an open-ended process. But human affairs show no sign of being additive in this way: what is gained can always be lost, sometimes –as with the return of torture as an accepted technique in war and government – in the blink of an eye. Human knowledge tends to increase, but humans do not become any more civilized as a result. They remain prone to every kind of barbarism, and while the growth of knowledge allows them to improve their material conditions, it also increases the savagery of their conflicts.
    John Gray (philosopher)
  • How dispiriting I find it, even after all my personal triumphs, that we must grow up and grow sad, that we must age, weaken, and in time go home to our long home in the ground, and that even golden lads and girls all must, as chimney sweepers, come to dust.
    Joseph Heller

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