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dispirited

verb
/dɪˈspɪɹɪtəd/UK

Definitions

  1. simple past and past participle of dispirit

  2. 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.
    • 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.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at dispirited. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01dispirited02disheartened03despairing04mood05sullen06gloomy07dejected

A definitional loop anchored at dispirited. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at dispirited

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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