How do you use Dispirited in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like listless or low, plus the exact meaning.
Dispirited meaning
simple past and past participle of dispirit
Synonyms of Dispirited
Using Dispirited
- The main meaning on this page is: simple past and past participle of dispirit
- Useful related words include: listless, low-spirited, low, downhearted.
- In the example corpus, dispirited often appears in combinations such as: dispirited by, and dispirited, dispirited and.
Context around Dispirited
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 6 middle, 8 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Dispirited
- In this selection, "dispirited" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 24.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, reportedly, confirmed, somewhat, brussels, fans and disciples stand out and add context to how "dispirited" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include into the dispirited brussels commission and americans grow dispirited by the. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "dispirited" sits close to words such as abhiyan, ajibola and ajinkya, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with dispirited
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Listening to Democratic response delivered by leaves one dispirited. (9 words)
I sat outside the hostel, my feet up on a chair, feeling utterly dispirited. (14 words)
Much of the Italian force was ill-equipped and dispirited, though some units put up stiff resistance. (17 words)
He was also alienated from the "rockoid" white acts that were quickly becoming the label's most profitable commodities, and dispirited by the rapidly waning fortunes of the black acts he had championed, such as Ben E. King and Solomon Burke. (41 words)
Huxley's presence there had been encouraged on the previous evening when he met Robert Chambers, the Scottish publisher and author of "Vestiges", who was walking the streets of Oxford in a dispirited state, and begged for assistance. (38 words)
It ends with an account of how Paul was selected and qualified to be an apostle to the Gentiles, in the hope that this will keep them from being dispirited and lead him to pray for them. (37 words)
Example sentences (20)
Popular BJP corporator Dheeraj Ghate, who was among the aspirants for the ticket, was reportedly dispirited after being denied candidature.
As the fight drew to a close and Tyson's comprehensive defeat was all but confirmed, dispirited fans began heading for the exits in their thousands.
Before today, we were somewhat dispirited by two years of fruitless negotiation with Whatu Ora health bureaucrats and a local politician.
Everton were not dispirited and, after a couple of half-chances, served a warning when Orel Mangala fired just over from an Ndiaye lay-off.
As human, you must have been dispirited by that “outcome” because that was not what you were expecting the omnipotent, omniscience and the omnipresent to do for you.
I took 3 months off of the gym because it was closed and I went back last week and am dispirited by how much strength and endurance I have lost.
Far from dispirited, the 38-year-old says the rehabilitation process might have come at the right time.
From Scripture, she chose the story of two dispirited disciples who encountered Jesus on the road to Emmaus.
However, not even a single case has been resolved and the denial of justice has left them dispirited.
I sat outside the hostel, my feet up on a chair, feeling utterly dispirited.
Meanwhile, the Americans grow dispirited by the relentless factory regimen, as one of them tells us in a tone that speaks volumes.
Listening to Democratic response delivered by leaves one dispirited.
Much of the Italian force was ill-equipped and dispirited, though some units put up stiff resistance.
Although he was a little-known former French finance minister, he breathed life and hope into the EC and into the dispirited Brussels Commission.
Although he was a little-known (outside France) finance minister and former MEP, he breathed life and hope into the EC and into the dispirited Brussels Commission.
Although Kipling did not much care for his new house, whose design, he claimed, left its occupants feeling dispirited and gloomy, he managed to remain productive and socially active.
He was also alienated from the "rockoid" white acts that were quickly becoming the label's most profitable commodities, and dispirited by the rapidly waning fortunes of the black acts he had championed, such as Ben E. King and Solomon Burke.
Huxley's presence there had been encouraged on the previous evening when he met Robert Chambers, the Scottish publisher and author of "Vestiges", who was walking the streets of Oxford in a dispirited state, and begged for assistance.
It ends with an account of how Paul was selected and qualified to be an apostle to the Gentiles, in the hope that this will keep them from being dispirited and lead him to pray for them.
Like Margaret, he appeared to be dispirited by the news of Tewkesbury and the Prince's death, and later rather tamely surrendered himself and his ships.
Common combinations with dispirited
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- dispirited by 7×
- and dispirited 4×
- dispirited and 3×
- the dispirited 2×
- dispirited brussels 2×