"disheartening" meaning in English

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Adjective

Forms: more disheartening [comparative], most disheartening [superlative]
Head templates: {{en-adj}} disheartening (comparative more disheartening, superlative most disheartening)
  1. Causing a person to lose heart; making despondent or gloomy. Synonyms: discouraging, disheartening, crushing, demotivating, demoralizing, disappointing, discouraging, disheartening, dispiriting, gutting Related terms: frighten Translations (Translations): lannistava (Finnish), démoralisant (French), przygnębiający (Polish), zniechęcający (Polish)
    Sense id: en-disheartening-en-adj-cK281Y8- Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English terms with consonant pseudo-digraphs, Pages with 1 entry, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with Polish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 90 10 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 93 7 Disambiguation of English terms with consonant pseudo-digraphs: 83 17 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 91 9 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 88 12 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 82 18 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 84 16

Verb

Head templates: {{head|en|verb form}} disheartening
  1. present participle and gerund of dishearten Tags: form-of, gerund, participle, present Form of: dishearten
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