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disheartening
adjective as in appalling
adjective as in bleak
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adjective as in depressing
adjective as in disappointing
adjective as in discouraging
adjective as in dismal
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- afflictive
- black
- boring
- cheerless
- cloudy
- dark
- depressed
- desolate
- despondent
- dingy
- disagreeable
- dispiriting
- doleful
- dolorous
- forlorn
- frowning
- funereal
- gruesome
- hopeless
- in the pits
- inauspicious
- joyless
- lonesome
- lowering
- lugubrious
- melancholy
- monotonous
- morbid
- oppressive
- overcast
- shadowy
- somber
- sorrowful
- tedious
- tenebrous
- troublesome
- unfortunate
- unhappy
adjective as in dispiriting
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adjective as in frightening
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adjective as in funereal
adjective as in gloomy
adjective as in off
adjective as in oppressive
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adjective as in sad
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Example Sentences
Which is disheartening because men get to do that and it’s like, “Oh, that’s so charming, give them a sitcom.”
Trump said that the tariffs "may go up" before adding a conditional and disheartening "it depends."
“It was so disheartening to see it go,” Perez, 27, said.
You hosted a CBC documentary about nonbinary identity recently, it must be disheartening to see people here getting their passports forcibly misgendered.
Having said that, it is disheartening to see the Democrats in Washington appear to either be ineffectual or totally missing in action.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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