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Pained vs Disheartened - What's the difference?

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Pained is a related term of disheartened.


As adjectives the difference between pained and disheartened

is that pained is in pain, especially in an emotional sense while disheartened is discouraged, despairing.

As verbs the difference between pained and disheartened

is that pained is (pain) while disheartened is (dishearten).

pained

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • In pain, especially in an emotional sense.

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (pain)

    • 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