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Disappointed vs Dispirited - What's the difference?

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Disappointed is a related term of dispirited.


As adjectives the difference between disappointed and dispirited

is that disappointed is defeated of expectation or hope; let down while dispirited is without energy, gusto or drive, enervated, without the will to accomplish, disheartened.

As verbs the difference between disappointed and dispirited

is that disappointed is (disappoint) while dispirited is (dispirit).

disappointed

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Defeated of expectation or hope; let down.
  • * , chapter=3
    • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=My hopes wa'n't disappointed . I never saw clams thicker than they was along them inshore flats. I filled my dreener in no time, and then it come to me that 'twouldn't be a bad idee to get a lot more, take 'em with me to Wellmouth, and peddle 'em out. Clams was fairly scarce over that side of the bay and ought to fetch a fair price.}}

    Synonyms

    * discomfited * foiled * frustrated * thwarted

    Verb

    (head)
  • (disappoint)

    • dispirited

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (dispirit)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Without energy, gusto or drive, enervated, without the will to accomplish, disheartened.
    • So dispirited were the troops after the loss of their beloved commander that they moped about and could barely be bothered to eat let alone load their guns.
  • *{{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=April 19 , author=Josh Halliday , title=Free speech haven or lawless cesspool – can the internet be civilised? , work=the Guardian citation , page= , passage=The shift in the balance of power online has allowed anyone to publish to the world, from dispirited teenagers in south London to an anonymous cyber-dissident in a Middle East autocracy.}}