To use disheartened in a sentence, you might say, "She felt disheartened after receiving a rejection letter from the job she had applied for." This term describes a feeling of discouragement or loss of hope.
"She was disheartened by the fact he no longer called." "I was disheartened when I didn't get the role of Cinderella in the play." "She was so excited about the work she was doing that I did not want to dishearten her by telling her that we didn't need the report anymore." "Don't let his harsh attitude dishearten you." "The failure of her first attempt proved to dishearten her."
She was disheartened by the news that she didn't get the part she so dearly wanted.
"Disheartened" is a verb used with an object that means to have lost some hope. Someone who is disheartened is discouraged. "She was disheartened by the fact the he no longer called."
discouraged
Definitions of disheartened on the Web: * demoralized: made less hopeful or enthusiastic; "desperate demoralized people looking for work"; "felt discouraged by the magnitude of the problem ...wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn * Deprived of hope, despairingen.wiktionary.org/wiki/disheartened
Disheartened is an antonym of heartened.
terrible.......... horrifying.......... bad...........
demoralized (USA), discouraged, disheartened.
I am dejected (disheartened) by your answer to my question.
You mean despondent, meaning downcast or disheartened, without hope
depressed disheartened devastated brokenhearted
She was probably disheartened about everything.