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Dishearten vs Deject - What's the difference?

dishearten | deject | Synonyms |

Dishearten is a synonym of deject.


As verbs the difference between dishearten and deject

is that dishearten is to discourage someone by removing their enthusiasm or courage while deject is make sad or dispirited.

dishearten

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To discourage someone by removing their enthusiasm or courage.

    • Synonyms

    * (to discourage) discourage

    Antonyms

    * (to discourage) hearten English words with consonant pseudo-digraphs

    deject

    English

    Verb

  • Make sad or dispirited.
  • * Benjamin Franklin
    • I pitied poor Miss Read's unfortunate situation. She was generally dejected , seldom cheerful, and avoided company.
  • (obsolete) To cast down.
  • * Udall
    • Christ dejected himself even unto the hells.
  • * Fuller
    • Sometimes she dejects her eyes in a seeming civility; and many mistake in her a cunning for a modest look.

    Quotations

    * 1927 Harold Victor Routh: God, Man, & Epic Poetry: A Study in Comparative Literature [http://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC03459385&id=fx8LAAAAMAAJ&q=dejects&dq=dejects&pgis=1] (page 215) *: Vergil succeeds in filling Hades with all that depresses and dejects in his world, so that Aeneas encounters the causes of Augustan pessimism. * 1933 Arthur Melville Jordan: Educational Psychology (page 60) [http://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC00764755&id=U6cQm3IcVHcC&q=%22there+is+nothing+which+dejects+school+children+quite+so+%22&dq=%22there+is+nothing+which+dejects+school+children+quite+so+%22&pgis=1] *: On the other hand, there is nothing which dejects school children quite so much as failure.

    Derived terms

    * dejected * dejection