dispiritedness
noun [ U ] uk/dɪˈspɪr.ɪ.tɪd.nəs/ us/dɪˈspɪr.ə.t̬ɪd.nəs/
沮丧,灰心,垂头丧气
the feeling of not having much hope about a particular situation or problem
There is a dispiritedness about the team these days. 这些天来,球队有一种灰心丧气的感觉。
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- She sits there alone in court, vulnerable, exuding dispiritedness.
- Books of herbal medicine refer to nigella as a seed that stimulates the body's energy and helps recovery from fatigue and dispiritedness.
- His poetry may be dispiriting rather than inspiring, but it is this very dispiritedness that draws me to it.
- The novel is a portrait of dispiritedness in later life.