Distraught vs Disheartened - What's the difference?

As adjectives the difference between distraught and disheartened

is that distraught is deeply hurt, saddened, or worried; distressed while disheartened is discouraged, despairing.

(dishearten).

(en adjective)

Deeply hurt, saddened, or worried; distressed.

His distraught widow cried for days, feeling very alone.

* distraughtly * distraughtness

* distressed * pained

(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.

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

(head)

(dishearten)