0 not feeling much hope about a particular situation or problem: --
The troops were dispirited and disorganized.
1 not feeling hopeful about a situation or problem: --
The poor are dispirited.
If anyone is feeling a bit dispirited or disheartened, let him visit our schools.
Many other people should receive the benefits, but they are too sick, too tired or too dispirited to make an appeal.
In their early years they were dispirited, discouraged and deprived of legitimate opportunities.
What is perhaps more important to remember is that forces that do not have pride or faith in their equipment become dispirited, and morale falls.
These young men and boys come from broken, dispirited homes—often no homes.
I think it will probably make quite a few farmers rather dispirited.
The people in that district are at present dispirited and downhearted.
There was no enterprise company, people were thrown out of work, and valley communities were dispirited.
