0 causing you to lose confidence, hope, and energy: --
It was disheartening to see how few people turned up.
This was very disheartening news.
1 causing a person to lose confidence, hope, and energy; discouraging: --
The new injury, after he had come back from the last, was disheartening.
It's very disheartening that politics has been reduced to these tribal divisions.
She had had a disheartening day.
The disheartening fact is that people don't care about this issue very much.
The result was disheartening for him.
NYA ORD
European
May 10, 2021
DAGENS ORD
Shimmer
disheartening