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Disheartened vs Heartened - What's the difference?

disheartened | heartened |

As verbs the difference between disheartened and heartened

is that disheartened is (dishearten) while heartened is (hearten).

As an adjective disheartened

is discouraged, despairing.

disheartened

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Discouraged, despairing.
  • * 2004 , , Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage :
    • He refused to get disheartened , even when all 50 writers polled by Newsweek predicted he would lose.

    Synonyms

    * dejected, dispirited, down in the mouth, sad, down in the dumps

    Verb

    (head)
  • (dishearten)
    • English words with consonant pseudo-digraphs

    heartened

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (hearten)

    • hearten

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To give heart to; to encourage, urge on, cheer, give confidence to.

    • Anagrams

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